Financial Statistics is in pair parts: the first part (chapters 1 to 7) contains tables that are updated as and when modern information becomes available.

Financial Statistics is in pair parts: the first part (chapters 1 to 7) contains tables that are updated as and when modern information becomes available, and the inferior part (chapters 8, 9, 11 12 and 14) contains tables which form a consistent data appoint that is updated once through quarter. As from October 1998 edition of Financial Statistics the UK accounts are at handed using the new European a whole of Accounts 1995 (ESA95). The consistent data wager has been updated this month and includes figures upto 2003 02 consistent with the National Accounts First Release published upon Tuesday 30th September 2003 and UK National Accounts 2003(The dejected Book 2003) and Balance of Payments (The Pink work 2003).

The tables in part the same contain the latest figures available for publication, which may not have been incorporated into the consistent data put published in part two. Thus, where the same series appears in part the same and part two, the figures may be different. Further details are given forward pages 11 and 159.

General notes

Data sources. The name of the department or organisation providing the statistics is shown subordinate to each table. Some of the statistics provided through departments are actually collected on other organisations and the assistance provided by way of these organisations, too numerous to mention individually, is gratefully acknowledged.

Provisional data. near figures are provisional and may be revised in later issues. This applies particularly to data for the principally recent time periods.

Area concealed Except where otherwise stated, the statistics relate to the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Change of basis. A line across a array of less front than depth between two consecutive figures indicates that the figures above and below the line have been compiled forward different bases and are not strictly comparable. These breaks are described in the Explanatory Handbook.

Rounding the figures. Where figures have been globulared there may be a slight discrepancy between the total and the summary of the constituent items.

Symbol and conventions. The following representatives are used throughout:

not available.

- nil or les than half the final digit.

^ indicates a just discovered entry or the earliest to have been revised since the previous issue.

Financial years. These are indicated from the format 1998/99.

Series identifiers. A unique four literal sense identifier (e.g., RURQ) is associated with each series and printed above it or to its left in the tables. It provides a cros relation between the tables and the National Statistics Databank (see overleaf). Please cite the relevant identifier if you contact us requiring further information about the data.

Explanatory Handbook

The 2003 edition of Financial Statistics Explanatory Handbook (The Stationery Office, price L3950 net) was published in December 2002 This companion whirl contains notes and definitions which are essential to understanding the tables and explaining the relationships between them.

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PART I - GENERAL FINANCIAL STATISTICS

This part consists mainly of freestanding data based forward the latest available monthly data sources. plenteous of the data given is incorporated in Part II with the same four verbal expression identifier. but frequently the data in this part is rearranged and reclassified, and additional estimates are made. The data may differ slightly from that in part II since the figures in this part are always the latest available, while those in Part II are those available at the start of the proces of compiling the cloyed set of national accounts for the latest quarter, typically nine or ten weeks after the finis of that quarter.

The tables are arranged in the following chapters:

Chapter 1 - Public sector finances

This chapter relates to the public sector finances. Followed according to summary, table 1.lA Public sector finances [i]clavis[/i] fiscal indicators, Public Sector toil Borrowing, central government surplus in succession current budget and net borrowing, and Public sector clear debt. Also there are details of the financing of the clear cash requirements of the central restraint of local authorities and of public corporations. As from February 2000 of recent origin UK International Reserves are included in this chapter.