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The government presents spending in aggregate billions. We present it as a company board would: revenue, expenditure, deficit, and every line item translated into what it costs you — per citizen and per household, per year.
| Line Item | Prior Year Actual £bn | Budget £bn | This Year Actual £bn | Variance | Per Citizen £/yr | Per Household £/yr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revenue — What Government Takes In | |||||||
| Income Tax | DIRECT | £248.4bn | £271.0bn | £278.2bn | +7.2 ▲ | £4,091 | £9,694 |
| National Insurance | DIRECT | £162.3bn | £173.2bn | £175.4bn | +2.2 ▲ | £2,579 | £6,111 |
| VAT | DIRECT | £158.1bn | £168.2bn | £169.4bn | +1.2 ▲ | £2,491 | £5,902 |
| Corporation Tax | HIDDEN | £93.9bn | £98.5bn | £101.2bn | +2.7 ▲ | £1,488 | £3,526 |
| Fuel Duty | STEALTH | £24.8bn | £26.5bn | £25.1bn | −1.4 ▼ | £369 | £875 |
| Council Tax | DIRECT | £38.2bn | £40.1bn | £41.9bn | +1.8 ▲ | £616 | £1,460 |
| Fiscal Drag (threshold freeze) | STEALTH | ~£20.0bn | ~£22.0bn | ~£25.0bn | +3.0 ▲ | £368 | £871 |
| Stamp Duty | HIDDEN | £11.6bn | £12.8bn | £13.7bn | +0.9 ▲ | £201 | £477 |
| Inheritance Tax | STEALTH | £7.1bn | £7.3bn | £7.5bn | +0.2 ▲ | £110 | £261 |
| Capital Gains Tax | DIRECT | £14.4bn | £15.2bn | £15.8bn | +0.6 ▲ | £232 | £550 |
| Business Rates | HIDDEN | £26.1bn | £27.4bn | £27.9bn | +0.5 ▲ | £410 | £972 |
| Insurance Premium Tax | HIDDEN | £7.2bn | £7.8bn | £7.9bn | +0.1 ▲ | £116 | £275 |
| Alcohol & Tobacco Duties | STEALTH | £22.4bn | £23.1bn | £22.8bn | −0.3 ▼ | £335 | £794 |
| Other Taxes & Receipts | HIDDEN | £89.4bn | £93.0bn | £95.7bn | +2.7 ▲ | £1,408 | £3,336 |
| Total Revenue | £1,097.4bn | £1,194.0bn | £1,232.3bn | +38.3 | £18,121 | £42,927 | |
| Expenditure — What Government Spends | |||||||
| Social Protection | £290.1bn | £305.0bn | £317.4bn | +12.4 ▲ | £4,668 | £11,060 | |
| NHS & Health | £177.0bn | £186.0bn | £197.4bn | +11.4 ▲ | £2,904 | £6,880 | |
| Education | £103.2bn | £112.0bn | £116.1bn | +4.1 ▲ | £1,708 | £4,046 | |
| Debt Interest | £82.9bn | £83.0bn | £84.8bn | +1.8 ▲ | £1,247 | £2,954 | |
| Defence | £48.0bn | £50.0bn | £54.0bn | +4.0 ▲ | £794 | £1,881 | |
| Transport | £28.1bn | £29.5bn | £30.6bn | +1.1 ▲ | £450 | £1,066 | |
| Housing & Communities | £10.2bn | £10.5bn | £11.0bn | +0.5 ▲ | £162 | £383 | |
| Home Office & Justice | £32.8bn | £34.2bn | £35.1bn | +0.9 ▲ | £516 | £1,223 | |
| International Aid | £12.2bn | £13.1bn | £13.8bn | +0.7 ▲ | £203 | £481 | |
| Ukraine Support | £2.3bn | £3.0bn | £3.0bn | — | £44 | £105 | |
| Other Departments | £143.9bn | £158.0bn | £165.8bn | +7.8 ▲ | £2,439 | £5,780 | |
| Total Expenditure | £1,224.3bn | £1,237.0bn | £1,284.0bn | +47.0 | £18,883 | £44,740 | |
| Net Deficit (Overspend) | −£127.0bn | −£75.0bn target | −£122.0bn | £47bn over | −£762/citizen | −£1,813/HH | |
William the Conqueror took Britain by force. The modern system was built with your consent. So why does it take more?
Geld tax + Church tithes + corvée labour + death duties. Imposed by conquest with 7,000 soldiers. No vote. No consent. At least they were honest about it.
Income Tax + NI + VAT + Council Tax + 40+ stealth levies on your labour, spending, savings and death. You vote every 5 years. But nobody asks where it goes.
Within 48 hours of the Chancellor sitting down, The Voters Vibe will publish Britain's first independent people's response to a Budget — built from the votes of registered citizens. We have prepared a formal open letter containing the evidence of broken promises, the data behind them, and ten questions that demand answers. It is being submitted to HM Treasury, all 650 MPs, and the national press.
Five formal audit questions researched from official sources — Parliament, NAO, ONS, OBR, DHSC, Homes England, House of Commons Library. Every number is sourced. Every calculation is shown. These are not opinions.
The hospital building programme was launched without a funding plan (Wes Streeting, Jan 2025). £900 million of the capital budget ring-fenced for construction was transferred to cover day-to-day costs in 2023/24. The NHS spent more on agency staff in a single year than the entire 5-year hospital building budget. Budget increased by £75.7bn over 9 years. Maintenance backlog: £13.8bn.
Government build cost for an affordable home: ~£160,000. £30.5bn ÷ £160k = 190,625 homes per year. Actual 2024/25 social homes built: 12,198. The break-even point between building a home once and paying benefit forever is 17.5 years. After that, a built home costs nothing — benefit continues indefinitely. 1.3 million households wait on the social housing register. 165,000 children in temporary accommodation.
Legal — drawn from Treasury Reserve, ratified retrospectively by Parliament via Supplementary Estimates. But no election manifesto specified this commitment. No public vote was held before £3bn/year to 2030 was announced at a NATO summit. The public was informed of commitments already made, not consulted before.
A person paying PMI + dental + critical illness + private GP pays £2,400–£6,100/year on top of full NI contributions. They reduce NHS demand (private insurers absorbed 163,680 procedures in Q2 2025 alone) and receive zero tax recognition. Compare: pension contributions receive both income tax and NI relief. Private healthcare receives neither.
The £350m/week claim was ruled a "clear misuse of official statistics" by the UK Statistics Authority before the vote. No Brexit dividend ever reached the NHS. UK goods exports to EU: 18% below 2019 levels. Net migration rose to 906,000 (2023) vs promised "tens of thousands." £40bn of the 2019–2024 parliament's tax rises estimated to result from Brexit productivity loss.
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You may notice our audit data references periods that feel like ancient history. This is not our oversight. It is the government's. The UK local audit system has been in systemic failure for years — and Parliament's own committees have confirmed it.
At the height of the backlog in 2023, over 900 local authorities had not published audited accounts for prior years. Many councils operated without verified financial data for multiple consecutive years.
The government has set a series of statutory backstop dates stretching to 2027/28. Until then, many authorities will publish "disclaimed" accounts — meaning auditors cannot provide full assurance on the figures.
"The lack of timely, audited data means the government is flying blind on the financial health of struggling councils." The same committee has noted that a shortage of skilled auditors continues to delay finalisation of accounts — meaning the data used to set next year's budget is based on unaudited, years-old figures.
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This is the formal submission being prepared on behalf of all registered Voice-Keepers. Read it in full, then add your mandate below. It will be dispatched to HM Treasury, the Public Accounts Committee, and all 650 MPs the moment the Voter Mandate is reached.
Submitted on behalf of [X,XXX] registered citizen auditors by The Voters Vibe — Britain's independent People's Audit. Submitted simultaneously to HM Treasury, the Public Accounts Committee, and all 650 Members of Parliament.
Dear Chancellor of the Exchequer,
The average UK household paid £29,847 in tax in 2024/25 — £2,487 every single month. This is the highest tax burden in 76 years. At the same time, the government missed its own deficit target by £47 billion, the national debt stands at £2.8 trillion with no published repayment plan, and housing received £32 per household per month while debt interest consumed £246.
The Voters Vibe is a non-partisan citizen transparency initiative. We are not a political party. We do not campaign for any party or candidate. We are applying the same standard of accountability that any company shareholder is legally entitled to apply to a board of directors.
Before presenting our ten questions, we set out the evidence that makes them necessary. What follows is a record of what was promised, and what actually happened — sourced entirely from the government's own published data.
| Line Item | 2023/24 | 2024/25 | Change | Per HH/Month |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Per Household Tax (year) | £26,293 | £29,847 | +£3,554 | £2,487/month |
| Net Deficit | −£127bn | −£122bn | vs −£75bn target | — |
| Debt Interest | £82.9bn | £84.8bn | +2.3% | £246/month |
| NHS Spend | £177bn | £197bn | +11.3% | £572/month |
| Defence | £48bn | £54bn | +12.5% | £157/month |
| Housing | £10bn | £11bn | +10% | £32/month |
| Tax Burden % GDP | 38.9% | 39.4% | 76-yr high | — |
Five pledges. Five outturns. All sourced from the government's own publications. This is why we are asking the questions below.
The gap between announcement and outturn is not a political point — it is a measurement problem. No mechanism exists to hold government to what it promises. These ten questions are that mechanism.
The 2024/25 deficit target was −£75bn. The actual outturn was approximately −£122bn. Which minister is accountable? What corrective measures are in place? When will Parliament receive a full written explanation?
The debt stands at £2.8 trillion — £102,000 per household. There is no published debt reduction plan. When will the government publish a legally-binding strategy with annual milestones?
£30.5bn housing budget. £26.8bn (88%) paid to private landlords as benefit — building zero homes. Build cost: £160,000/home = 190,625 possible. Built: 12,198. Break-even: 17.5 years. 1.3 million families waiting. Has Treasury modelled this? Why does 88p in every housing pound go to landlords?
£16bn+ to Ukraine since 2022 — £575/household total. £3bn/year pledged to 2030/31 (£108/household/year). Committed via Treasury Reserve, ratified retrospectively. No manifesto commitment. No parliamentary vote before announcement at NATO summit. What is the statutory basis? Does the government believe £108/household/year for a foreign military commitment requires public consent?
The Budget is presented in aggregate billions inaccessible to most citizens. Will the government commit to a per-household, per-month breakdown in all future Budget documents?
DHSC budget rose £75.7bn in a decade. 40 hospitals pledged by 2030 — 1 genuinely built. Programme launched without a funding plan. £900m capital transferred to salaries. NHS spent £8.3bn on agency staff — more than the entire 5-year Affordable Homes Programme. Maintenance backlog: £13.8bn. Where did the extra £75.7bn go?
The tax burden is at its highest in 76 years. Public sector productivity has fallen 4.6% since 2019. Will the government publish an annual productivity-per-pound report for every major department?
Freezing income tax thresholds has raised approximately £25bn in extra revenue as wages rose into higher bands. This was never called a tax rise. No parliamentary debate was held. Will the government subject future threshold freezes to the same parliamentary process as explicit rate changes?
1 in 4 adults experience a mental health condition annually. Mental health receives approximately 8% of NHS funding while debt interest receives £246 per household per month. When will mental health funding reach a proportion commensurate with its burden of disease?
Citizens vote every five years but have no formal mechanism to participate in how £2,487 of their monthly income is spent. Will the government commit to quarterly citizen-facing financial accounts — in plain English, per household — as a permanent standard?
7.6 million UK adults hold private medical insurance. Each pays full National Insurance and additionally pays £499–£4,500+/year in private premiums. Private insurers absorbed 163,680 NHS procedures in Q2 2025 alone — demand the NHS did not have to meet. Zero tax relief. Pension savers receive double relief. Is it the government's position that citizens who voluntarily remove themselves from NHS demand should pay full NHS tax with zero recognition?
The £350m/week NHS claim was ruled "a clear misuse of official statistics" before the vote. No Brexit dividend reached the NHS. OBR (March 2025) forecasts Brexit reduces long-run UK productivity by 4% — £100bn/year, £1.92bn/week. The net saving: £136m/week. For every £1 saved, £14 lost annually. Exports to EU: 18% below 2019. Net migration rose. What formal assessment of Brexit promises vs outturns has been published for citizens?
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The NHS received £75.7bn more over a decade. One hospital was built. Agency staff cost more than the entire Affordable Homes Programme. This manual documents what happened to the money, names the gaps in care, and sets out what a people's health mandate looks like: genuine parity for mental health, an end to NHS car park charges, a published workforce plan with binding targets, and a capital budget ring-fenced by statute so it cannot be raided for salaries.
88p in every housing pound goes to private landlords as benefit — building zero homes. 1.3 million families are on waiting lists. 12,198 homes built against a target of 300,000 per year. This manual sets out a people's housing mandate: a build-to-rent programme funded from the housing benefit budget, land value taxation reform, and a legally binding definition of "affordable" tied to local median earnings — not market rate.
1 in 4 people experience a mental health condition each year. Mental health receives 8% of the NHS budget. Waiting times for talking therapies exceed 18 months in many areas. Children's CAMHS is in systemic crisis. This manual demands genuine parity of esteem — the same waiting time standards as physical health, ring-fenced funding that cannot be transferred, and a published workforce plan for mental health professionals with enforceable targets.
Per pupil spending is down 5% in real terms since 2010. Teacher recruitment is in crisis. RAAC concrete threatens hundreds of school buildings. This manual calls for a per-pupil funding floor tied to inflation, a teachers' pay review body with binding outcomes, a published building safety programme with completion dates, and a national tutoring guarantee for every child who falls more than two years behind.
AI is reshaping employment, healthcare, education, and democracy faster than any legislation can keep pace. This manual demands: a citizens' AI charter with legal force, mandatory algorithmic impact assessments for public sector AI, a right to human review of any AI decision affecting benefits, employment, or healthcare, and a national AI literacy programme taught in every school by 2027.
Your data is the most valuable commodity on earth — and you receive none of the proceeds. This manual sets out a people's digital rights charter: a right to data portability across all platforms, a right to know when you are being profiled, a right to opt out of behavioural advertising without losing access to services, and a ban on the sale of location data to government or insurance companies without explicit consent.
Fiscal drag has taken £25bn extra from households without a single parliamentary vote. The national debt stands at £2.8 trillion with no published reduction plan. This manual demands: a citizen-readable budget published in per-household-per-month format within 48 hours of every Budget statement, a legally binding debt reduction strategy with annual milestones, and a rule that any measure raising equivalent revenue to a tax rise must be subject to the same parliamentary process.
£16bn has been committed to Ukraine since 2022 — £575 per household — with no manifesto mandate and no parliamentary vote before announcement. Defence spending rose 12.5% in one year. This manual does not oppose defence spending. It demands democratic process: any multi-year foreign military commitment above £1bn must require a parliamentary vote before announcement, and all defence budget increases above inflation must be presented in per-household terms with an independent cost-benefit analysis.
Real wages are below 2008 levels for millions of workers. The state pension triple lock costs £120bn per year while working-age benefits face cuts. Zero-hours contracts affect 1 million workers with no right to guaranteed hours. This manual demands: a right to a contract reflecting average hours worked after 12 weeks, a published intergenerational fairness audit alongside every Budget, and an independent review of working-age benefit levels against the cost of living — with findings put to a parliamentary vote.
The UK committed to net zero by 2050 but has no fully funded pathway. Sewage was discharged into rivers and seas on 3.6 million occasions in 2023. Energy bills took the equivalent of two months' salary from the average household during the crisis. This manual demands: a published net zero delivery plan with departmental budgets and legal milestones, a ban on sewage discharge with enforceable fines that cannot be paid as a cost of doing business, and a household energy security fund that guarantees no household pays more than 10% of income on energy.
Voter turnout at the 2024 general election was 59.7% — the third lowest since universal suffrage. First-past-the-post delivered an 174-seat majority on 33.7% of votes cast. Manifesto promises are not legally enforceable. This manual demands: a citizens' assembly on electoral reform with a binding referendum within one parliament, a manifesto costing obligation requiring independent OBR sign-off before polling day, and a right of recall for any MP convicted of a criminal offence mid-term.
Arts Council funding has been cut by 50% in real terms since 2010. Public libraries have fallen from 4,500 to under 3,000. Community centres, youth clubs, and civic spaces are closing at a rate of four per week. This manual argues that a society without shared spaces, shared stories, and shared culture is not a society at all. It demands: a statutory duty on local authorities to maintain a minimum provision of free public cultural spaces, a national youth arts guarantee for every school, and an end to the treatment of arts funding as discretionary.
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| Rectification | Correct inaccurate data we hold about you | 30 days |
| Erasure | Delete your account and all associated personal data | 30 days |
| Restriction | Limit how we use your data while a complaint is investigated | 30 days |
| Portability | Receive your data in a machine-readable format | 30 days |
| Object | Object to processing based on legitimate interests | 30 days |
| Withdraw consent | Remove consent for consent-based processing at any time | Immediate |
If you are not satisfied with our response, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office: ico.org.uk · 0303 123 1113.
Our website uses the following cookies:
| Cookie | Purpose | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| Essential session cookies | Keep you logged in | Session |
| Analytics (anonymised) | Understand how pages are used — no personal identification | 13 months |
We do not use advertising cookies or third-party tracking cookies. We do not serve advertisements.
We implement the following security measures: 256-bit SSL/TLS encryption for all data in transit; row-level security on our Supabase database; access controls limiting data to authorised personnel only; regular security reviews; no storage of payment card data (handled entirely by Stripe's PCI DSS Level 1 compliant systems).
In the event of a data breach that affects your rights and freedoms, we will notify the ICO within 72 hours and notify affected individuals without undue delay.
Our services are not directed at children under 18. We do not knowingly collect data from anyone under 18. If you believe a child has registered, please contact [email protected] immediately and we will delete the account.
We will notify you of material changes to this Privacy Policy by email at least 14 days before they take effect. The current version is always available at votersvibe.co.uk/privacy.
Data Protection Officer / Privacy contact:
[email protected]
The Voters Vibe, [Virtual Address], United Kingdom
ICO registration number: [Pending — register at ico.org.uk before collecting data]
ICO helpline: 0303 123 1113 · ico.org.uk
The Voters Vibe · Privacy Policy v1.0 · February 2026 · Governed by UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018