UK public spending, 2025-26

£1m runs schools and education for 5 min 32 sec

Schools and education costs £95bn a year — £260m a day, or £3,010 every second.

Your £1m is 0.00105% of the annual bill

Source: OBR: Education day-to-day (RDEL) budget 2025-26, £95bn. Assumes the money goes out evenly through the year.

£1m on the clock

The same £1m elsewhere

Budget	Lasts
The whole UK governmentruns	23 seconds
The NHSruns	2 min 35 sec
The state pensionpays	3 min 37 sec
Social protection (all benefits and pensions)pays	83 seconds
Interest on the national debtcovers	5 min 23 sec
Defence (day-to-day)runs	13 min 29 sec
The deficitplugs	4 min 7 sec
HMRC's takematches	34 seconds
The monarchy (Sovereign Grant)runs	2 days 18 hr