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    Home - UK News - Government borrowing soars to second-highest level on record

    Government borrowing soars to second-highest level on record

    Government borrowing soars to second-highest level on record

    Government borrowing soars to second-highest level on record

    • WTX News Editor
    • July 22, 2025
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    • Government borrowing surged to £20.684 billion in June, marking the second-highest level since records began in 1993, driven by rising debt interest payments.
    • The increase in borrowing exceeded economists’ expectations by nearly £4 billion, surpassing last year’s figures by over £6 billion.
    • Chancellor Rachel Reeves faces pressure to increase taxes to bridge the gap between spending and income, as her fiscal commitment aims to reduce government debt by 2030.

    Government borrowing soars to second-highest level on record | Money News

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    Government borrowing rose significantly more than expected last month as debt interest payments soared.

    Official figures show the cost of public services and interest payments on government debt rose faster than the increases in income tax and national insurance contributions.

    It means government borrowing reached the second-highest level in June since records began in 1993, according to data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).

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    June’s borrowing figures – £20.684bn – were second only to the highs seen in the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, when many workers were furloughed.

    The figure was a surprise, nearly £4bn higher than anticipated by economists polled by Reuters.

    State borrowing – the difference between income from things like taxes and expenditure on the likes of public services – was more than £6bn higher than the same month last year.

    Pushing the borrowing figure up was the high cost of interest payments, which was the second highest June since those records began in 1997. Only June 2022 saw higher spending on government debt.

    But despite the latest rise, borrowing this year is in line with the March forecast from the independent forecasters at the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR), though it’s the second month in a row borrowing was above its projections.

    It’s bad news for Chancellor Rachel Reeves, who has vowed to bring down government debt and balance the budget by 2030 as part of her self-imposed fiscal rules.

    She’s expected to increase taxes to meet the gap between spending and tax revenue. The pressure is such that analysts from economic research firm Pantheon Macro said, “Autumn tax hikes are likely and will probably be backloaded.”

    Ms Reeves’s deputy, the chief secretary to the Treasury, Darren Jones, said, “We are committed to tough fiscal rules, so we do not borrow for day-to-day spending and get debt down as a share of our Economy.”

    “This commitment to economic stability means we can get on with investing in Britain’s renewal”.

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