Where Does My Money Go?

Analysing and visualising UK public spending

Our aim is to promote transparency and citizen engagement through the analysis and visualisation of information about UK public spending.

Where Does My Money Go? was a winner of the UK Government’s Show Us a Better Way competition in November 2008. Find out more ».

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Where Does My Money Go represents another milestone in the UK’s transparency movement. We know that transparency changes individual and institutional behaviour and this new tool will have a big impact on the way the public sector is held to account by UK citizens.

Tom Watson MP

I’m loving this: you can click on any of those dots (on the actual web-page) to see what it represents. The slider moves you back and forth year-to-year. It’s an amazing way of visualizing public spending.

Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing

The Open Knowledge Foundation has created a visualisation so that everyone can easily understand British government spending.

The Guardian

Online tools can now help citizens curious about what their taxes are being spent on.

BBC News

Absolutely brilliant website showing where all your tax money is spent. Go play now.

Edmund Conway, Economics Editor, Telegraph

Where Does My Money Go? provides access to Treasury public spending data in a simple and brilliant way.

Straight Statistics

Number 1 in “Data.gov.uk: Top Ten Apps so far”

Telegraph

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