Sections · PESA departmental group
HM Revenue and Customs
HM Revenue and Customs: its running costs, and Child Benefit and the other payments it makes. In 2025-26 the bodies in this section spent £32.3bn on services. £20.6bn of it (63.8%) can be followed to who received it, and at most 67.8% counting payees who are named but can't be identified yet.
- Reached an identified organisation
- Reached a recipient the publisher did not name
- Reached people, counted by benefit
- Reached staff (pay) or holders of government debt (interest), followed as one published total
- Named payee, not yet identified (may be another public body)
- Not followed
How far it is followed, and why the rest can't be
- Benefit figures are a forecast£15.5bnmeasured
The benefit lines counted here are the department's forecast or budget for 2025-26; its outturn has not been published yet. They are counted as followed, and every headline is also given without them.
- Below the publication threshold
Payments under £25,000 (central government and the NHS) or £500 (councils) are not published one by one. Some publishers list every payment anyway; most do not.
- Pay: followed to staff as one total£4.1bnmeasured
Wages are never published person by person, and must not be. The staff costs of the 1 bodies in this section, from HM Treasury's OSCAR database (2025-26, provisional outturn), are counted as followed to their staff.
Where the records come from
Each publisher's 2025-26 payment records, and where their money went. "Identified" means matched to a registered company, charity or other organisation outside government; "named only", a payee named in the record but not yet matched; "passed on", paid to another public body.
| Publisher | Months | Records | Identified | Named only | Withheld | Passed on |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| HM Revenue & Customs | 12 | 12,973 | £1.0bn | £1.3bn | £0 | £144m |
Benefits, counted by benefit
People who receive benefits are never named here, one by one or otherwise. Each line is everyone paid that benefit, as one recipient.
| Recipients | Measure | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|
| Child Benefit recipients | budget | £14.4bn |
| Lifetime ISA government bonus recipients | budget | £570m |
| Tax-Free Childcare account holders (parents; government top-up) | budget | £455m |
| Help to Save bonus recipients | budget | £44m |
The largest payees not yet identified
Payees paid £5m or more. Named in the records as shown, but not yet matched to a registered organisation or a public body. Some may be public bodies; until they are matched they are counted as followed by name only.
| Payee, as published | 2025-26 |
|---|---|
| CAPGEMINI | £404m |
| FUJITSU SERVICES LTD | £267m |
| COGNIZANT TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS | £116m |
| WORKMAN HOLDING ACCOUNT | £77m |
| AMAZON WEB SERVICES UK | £75m |
| SPECIALIST COMPUTER CTR (NON EDI) | £57m |
| EVIDEN TECHNOLOGY SERVICES LIMITED | £35m |
| NEWCASTLE ESTATE PARTNERSHIP | £35m |
| AMAZON WEB SERVICES | £28m |
| DELOITTE LLP (L) | £28m |
What PESA says this section spends on
| Function | 2025-26 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Social protection | £14.8bn | 46% |
| Economic affairs | £10.7bn | 33% |
| General public services | £6.5bn | 20% |
| Housing and community amenities | £284m | 1% |
| Environment protection | £105m | 0% |