EU Government Deficit and Debt Return including Maastricht Supplementary Data Tables: Quarter 3 (July to Sep) 2015

The full set of UK government finance statistics supplied under the Maastricht Treaty, including details of the components of government debt and deficit and supplemantary data.

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15 January 2016

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Table of contents

  1. Main points
  2. Background
  3. Summary of general government deficit and gross debt
  4. Recent events and methodological changes
  5. International comparability
  6. Revisions
  7. Annex A - Data tables
  8. Annex B – Maastricht supplementary data tables
  9. Annex C – Glossary
  10. We value feedback
  11. Background notes

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1. Main points

  • General government deficit (net borrowing) was £91.9 billion in the financial year ending March 2015 (5.0% of Gross Domestic Product (GDP)), a decrease of £12.2 billion compared with the financial year ending March 2014

  • General government gross debt was £1,601.3 billion at the end of the financial year ending March 2015 (87.5% of GDP), an increase of £79.9 billion compared with the end of the financial year ending March 2014

  • This release is fully consistent with the latest data transmission on UK government deficit (or net borrowing) and debt that the UK and other European Union (EU) member states are required to report quarterly to the European Commission

  • The figures for 1997 onwards in this statistical bulletin are fully consistent with the data published in the Public Sector Finances statistical bulletin of 22 December 2015

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2. Background

The EU Government Deficit and Debt statistical bulletin is published quarterly in January, April, July and October each year, to coincide with when the UK and other European Union (EU) member states are required to report on their deficit (or net borrowing) and debt to the European Commission.

Article 126 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (EU) obliges member states to avoid excessive budgetary deficits. The Protocol on the Excessive Deficit Procedure, annexed to the Maastricht Treaty, defines 2 criteria and reference values with which member states’ governments should comply. These are:

  • a deficit (net borrowing) to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio of 3%

  • a debt to GDP ratio of 60%

The deficit is a measure of how much the government has to borrow to cover its expenditure once revenue has been netted off, for this reason it is also known as net borrowing. The monetary values quoted are in current prices, that is, they represent the price of borrowing in the year to which they relate without any adjustments for inflation. Thus for comparisons over time the figures as a percentage of GDP (also measured in current prices) are used to provide a comparable time series.

The source data, and therefore the debt and deficit figures published in this bulletin (for the time period 1997 onwards), are the same as those published in the Public Sector Finances, November 2015 statistical bulletin published on 22 December 2015. There are 2 main differences between the main borrowing and debt measures published in the Public Sector Finances and the deficit and debt figures published in this bulletin:

  1. this bulletin includes only debt and deficit recorded to central and local government, whereas the UK Public Sector Finances’ measures also include the debt and deficit of other public sector bodies

  2. this bulletin reports gross debt, that is, the financial liabilities of central and local government, whereas the Public Sector Finances’ headline measure is net debt, calculated as financial liabilities less liquid assets (that is, official reserve assets and other cash or cash-like assets)

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3. Summary of general government deficit and gross debt

This section provides the latest headline data for deficit (net borrowing) and debt, and supporting information.

The Public Sector Finances, November 2015 statistical bulletin published estimates for the headline measures of general government net borrowing and general government gross debt on 22 December 2015. This bulletin provides further information of these estimates and presents them in the context of the European Union (EU) requirements.

Table 1 shows the headline measures on a financial year and calendar year basis both as £ billion values and as a percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

Table 1: Government Deficit and Debt

UK, financial year ending 2008 to financial year ending 2015 and calendar years 2007 to 2014
£ billion3
Financial Years2007/082008/092009/102010/112011/122012/132013/142014/151
Deficit45.7102.2163.0143.9125.1126.3104.291.9
as % GDP3.06.810.89.17.77.55.95.0
Debt2 640.7823.51,074.01,212.61,345.71,420.81,521.41,601.3
as % GDP42.754.871.477.082.684.686.687.5
Calendar Years20072008200920102011201220132014
Deficit44.476.9160.0150.8124.8138.598.5103.0
as % GDP3.05.110.89.77.78.35.75.7
Debt2646.2786.3975.51,190.91,324.21,420.71,495.91,602.2
as % GDP43.551.765.776.681.885.386.288.2
Source: Office for National Statistics
Notes:
1. 2014/15 refers to the financial year ending March 2015.
2. At nominal values.
3. Unless otherwise stated.

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General government deficit

In the financial year ending March 2015, the UK government deficit (net borrowing) was £91.9 billion (5.0% of GDP). This represents a decrease of £12.2 billion since the financial year ending March 2014 and is the lowest value since the financial year ending March 2008 when it was £45.7 billion (3.0% of GDP).

The financial year ending 2015 is the fifth annual reduction in net borrowing as a proportion of GDP since the financial year ending March 2010 when it was 10.8%. However, the deficit remains above the Maastricht reference value of 3.0%.

In the calendar year 2014, the UK government deficit (net borrowing) was £103.0 billion (5.7% of GDP). This represents an increase of £4.6 billion since 2013. However, cash transfers from the Asset Purchase Facility reduced the deficit by £18.6 billion in 2013 and only £8.7 billion in 2014. If these cash transfers are excluded then the deficit in the calendar year 2014 was £5.4 billion lower than 2013.

The long-term general government deficit (net borrowing) as a percentage of GDP is illustrated in Figure 1.

Figure 1: General government deficit (net borrowing) as a percentage of GDP

UK, financial year ending 1993 to financial year ending 2015

Source: Office for National Statistics

Notes:
  1. GDP = Gross Domestic Product.
  2. 2014/15 refers to the financial year ending March 2015.
  3. Deficit to GDP ratio reference value is 3%.

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General government gross debt

At the end of the financial year ending March 2015, UK government gross debt was £1,601.3 billion (87.5% of GDP). As a proportion of GDP, this is the 12th consecutive annual increase. The general government gross debt first exceeded the 60% Maastricht (Excessive Deficit) reference value in the financial year ending March 2010 when it was £1,074.0 billion (71.4% of GDP).

At the end of the calendar year 2014, UK government gross debt was £1,602.2 billion (88.2% of GDP). This represents an increase of £106.3 billion since the end of 2013.

The long-term general government gross debt as a percentage of GDP is illustrated in Figure 2.

Figure 2: General government gross debt as a percentage of GDP

UK, financial year ending 1993 to financial year ending 2015

Source: Office for National Statistics

Notes:
  1. GDP = Gross Domestic Product.
  2. 2014/15 refers to the financial year ending March 2015.
  3. Debt to GDP ratio reference value is 60%.

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4. Recent events and methodological changes

The last edition of this bulletin in October 2015, included a number of methodological changes including those made for the 2015 annual national accounts publication (Blue Book 2015). This edition includes less methodological changes, as is normal following the annual national accounts publication, but 4 changes have been incorporated, these are:

Police Service Agreement

Implementing the reclassification of these payments from fees to taxes has led to an increase in central government current expenditure and an equal increase in central government current receipts, from financial year ending March 2004 and therefore has had no impact on central government net borrowing.

Heavy Goods Vehicle Road User Levy

Implementing this change has corrected the apportionment between duty paid by businesses and duty paid by households with a downward revision to vehicle duty paid by households and a matching increase in vehicle duty paid by businesses. This change has had no impact on central government net borrowing.

Community Infrastructure Levy

Community Infrastructure Levy is a planning charge, introduced by the Planning Act 2008 as a tool for local authorities in England and Wales to help deliver infrastructure to support the development of their area. The Community Infrastructure Levy has not previously been included and so its inclusion has reduced local government net borrowing from financial year ending March 2013 onwards. In the financial year ending March 2015, borrowing was reduced by £0.1 billion.

Light dues

These charges are levied on ships for the maintenance of lighthouses and other aids to navigation. The inclusion of these receipts have led to a decrease in central government net borrowing of approximately £0.1 billion a financial year, from financial year ending March 1998 to date.

In addition to these methodological changes, some of the more significant recent events which impact on the reported government deficit and debt are summarised below. For more information on the methodlogical changes and events impacting these statistics please see the relevant section of the Public Sector Finances, November 2015 statistical bulletin.

Foreign exchange trading fines

In the financial year ending March 2015, central government received £1.3 billion in fines from the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). Of this, in November 2014, a number of UK banks were fined a total of £1.1 billion for failures in their foreign currency operations.

More recently, in Quarter 2 (April to June) 2015, central government received has £0.7 billion in fines from the FCA.

Such fines are recorded as central government receipts and so reduce the deficit (net borrowing).

Bank of England Asset Purchase Facility Fund

The Chancellor announced on 9 November 2012 that it had been agreed with the Bank of England to transfer to the Exchequer the excess cash in the Asset Purchase Facility Fund. In line with European guidance (from Eurostat) the amount of cash that reduces net borrowing is limited by the entrepreneurial income earned by the Bank of England in the previous year.

In the financial year ending March 2015, there was a £10.7 billion transfer from the Asset Purchase Facility to HM Treasury, all of which affected (reduced) net borrowing.

In the financial year ending March 2014, there was a £31.1 billion transfer from the Asset Purchase Facility to HM Treasury. The Bank of England entrepreneurial income for the financial year ending 2014 was calculated as £12.8 billion, which represents the amount of Bank of England dividend payments that impacted on net borrowing (although only £12.2 billion of the dividend payments related to the Asset Purchase Facility).

Lloyds Banking Group

On 17 September 2013 the UK government began selling part of its share holding in Lloyds Banking Group. The sale of the shares does not directly impact on general government net borrowing or general government gross debt because it is purely a financial transaction exchanging equity for cash.

The cash received from the September 2013 sale of the government’s 6% stake (at 75p a share) was £3.2 billion.

A further sale was held on 23 to 24 March 2014 of a 7.5% stake, which raised £4.2 billion.

Following the March 2014 sale of shares, Lloyds Banking Group was reclassified from being a public financial corporation to a private financial corporation.

Between December 2014 and March 2015, small ongoing sales of shares have raised a further combined £1.7 billion.

Share sales in the second and third quarters of 2015

Although outside of the financial year ending March 2015, further share sales have occurred in the second (between April and June) and the third (between July and September) quarters of 2015. These are as follows:

  • the sale of the government’s 40% stake in the cross-Channel train operator Eurostar raised £757 million between April and June

  • the sale of half of the government’s retained shareholding in Royal Mail (a 15% stake) raised £750 million between April and June

  • the sale of 5.4% of the government’s stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland raised £2.1 billion between July and September

  • the ongoing sale of shares in Lloyds Banking group has raised a total of £3.4 billion between April and June 2015, and £2.7 billion between July and September

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5. International comparability

Under the Excessive Deficit Procedure all European Union (EU) member states report their latest detailed deficit and debt information to the European Commission twice a year. Supporting statistical information, including deficit and debt values, are reported quarterly. Both the biannual and quarterly returns are published by Eurostat website (the European statistical agency).

Both the debt and deficit figures in this statistical bulletin will be published by Eurostat on 22 January 2016.

The tables in this bulletin present the UK government debt and deficit position at the end of both the financial and calendar years. The UK, uniquely within the European Union, is assessed against the deficit and debt on a UK financial year basis (that is, April to March). In June 2015, the UK provided to Eurostat first estimates for the financial year ending 2015 and revised estimates for the calendar year 2014 (originally reported in March 2015); in December 2015 the UK provided revised estimates for both financial and calendar years.

The UK figures may be compared with those of other EU member states on the Government Finance Statistics section of the Eurostat website.

The latest UK government deficit and debt figures exceed the reference values set out in the Protocol on the Excessive Deficit Procedure. According to the latest deficit and debt figures published on 21 October 2015, 13 member states had a deficit exceeding the 3% of GDP reference value in 2014 and 16 member states had gross debts exceeding the 60% of GDP reference value as at the end of 2014.

While the main statistics provided to Eurostat are those of general government consolidated gross debt and general government net borrowing (or deficit), supplementary government finance statistics are also supplied by member states. A full set of government finance tables provided by the UK to Eurostat in December 2015 are included in this release.

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6. Revisions

This is the third time that deficit and debt figures for the financial year ending March 2015 have been reported in this statistical bulletin series. Since the last publication of the EU Government Deficit and Debt Return in October 2015, the deficit in the financial year ending March 2015 has been revised down by £1.5 billion (1.6%) and debt as at the end of March 2015 has been revised up by £0.4 billion (0.02%).

Table M8R presents the revisions to main aggregates since the last publication of the EU Government Deficit and Debt Return in October 2015. Revisions to the data are consistent with revisions incorporated within the Public Sector Finances statistical bulletin.

Main methodological changes and recent events that affect data movements are described under “Recent events and methodological changes”.

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.Annex A - Data tables

There are 9 tables included as part of this bulletin. Most tables extend back to the financial year ending March 1993 in financial years and 1992 in calendar years. However, Table M7 extends back to 1995 and Tables M5, M6 and M9 only cover more recent periods.

All values in the tables are at current prices and are not seasonally adjusted. The debt figures are at nominal value. That is, the debt is valued at the face value of the debt, which is what the government will be liable to pay, and not the market value of the debt.

Table M1 shows the general government deficit and debt (in £ million and as a percentage of GDP).

Table M2 shows the general government debt by financial instrument (in £ million).

Table M3 shows transactions (or changes) in general government debt by financial instrument (in £ million).

Table M4 shows how the deficit can be reconciled with the changes in gross debt (in £ million).

Table M5 shows how the unconsolidated financial liabilities of central government and local government are consolidated to arrive at general government consolidated gross debt (in £ million).

Table M6 shows how the unconsolidated transactions (or changes) in financial liabilities of central government and local government are consolidated to arrive at consolidated transactions in general government gross debt (in £ million).

Table M7 shows how general government net borrowing (or deficit) is consistent with the general government net borrowing reported in the Public Sector Finances, November 2015 statistical bulletin published on 22 December 2015 (in £ million and as a percentage of GDP). The implementation of ESA 2010 in September 2014 has resulted in both outputs having consistent net borrowing figures from the financial year ending March 1998 onwards.

Table M8R shows revisions in deficit and debt between the figures published in this bulletin and those published in the last bulletin in October 2015 (in £ million and as a percentage of GDP).

Table M9 relates to government activities undertaken to support financial institutions during the financial crisis. It does not include wider economic stimulus packages. The table is presented in 2 parts:

Part 1 shows the impact on government deficit from both the expenditure undertaken by government and the revenue received as part of these support measures.

Part 2 shows the impact on the government balance sheet from the support measures. Part 2 also includes estimates of the contingent liabilities that government is exposed to through the activities undertaken to support financial institutions. All figures are in £ million.

In addition, the Maastricht supplementary tables are included within this release. Information on these tables can be found within Annex B.

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.Annex B – Maastricht supplementary data tables

The tables in this release are copies of the data supplied to Eurostat in December 2015.

In all tables the Eurostat convention for recording missing values is used. This convention uses “M” when something is not applicable or the requested data does not exist and “L when the requested data is not available or the data exists but has not been collected/recorded.

All tables cover UK general government, that is UK central government and local government. The ESA tables 2, 25, 27, 28 are published 4 times a year (in January, April, July and October).

European System of Accounts (ESA) Table 2 Main Aggregates of General Government

ESA Table 2 (4.86 Mb Excel sheet) is a complete set of annual (calendar years) non-financial accounts for the time series 1990 to 2014 of the general government sector, compiled according to ESA 2010. Table 2 provides a breakdown of general government expenditure (both current and capital) and general government revenue. The table uses ESA 2010 codes to identify the different transactions with “OTE” representing the total general government expenditure and “OTR” representing the total general government revenue. The table also shows the general government net borrowing (B.9) which is the difference between total revenue and total expenditure. The data is an annual presentation of the quarterly general government data in ESA Table 25.

European System of Accounts (ESA) Table 25 Quarterly Non-Financial Accounts of General Government

ESA Table 25 (13.49 Mb Excel sheet) is a complete set of quarterly non-financial accounts for the time series Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 1987 to Quarter 3 (July to Sep) 2015 of the general government sector, compiled according to ESA 2010. Table 25 provides a breakdown of general government expenditure (both current and capital) and general government revenue. This table shows the general government net borrowing (B.9) which is the difference between total revenue and total expenditure. The data is a quarterly presentation of the annual general government data in ESA Table 2.

European System of Accounts (ESA) Table 27 Quarterly Financial Accounts of General Government

ESA Table 27 (19.6 Mb Excel sheet) (also known as QFAGG – quarterly financial accounts of general government) is a complete set of quarterly financial accounts for the time series Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 1987 to Quarter 3 (July to Sep) 2015 of the general government sector and its sub-sectors, compiled according to ESA 2010. The table deals with both financial transactions and the financial balance sheets. Data are consolidated within each sub-sector and are available both consolidated and unconsolidated at the general government level.

European System of Accounts (ESA) Table 28 Quarterly Government Debt (Maastricht Debt) for General Government

ESA Table 28 (1.11 Mb Excel sheet) shows government debt on a quarterly basis for the time series Quarter 1 (Jan to Mar) 2000 to Quarter 3 (July to Sep) 2015, for general government and its sub-sectors, compiled according to ESA 2010. The table provides a breakdown of all debt instruments that are relevant in the EDP reporting of “Maastricht Debt”. These instruments are categorised under ESA 2010 as F.2 (cash and deposits), F.33 (securities other than shares) and F.4 (loans). Data are consolidated within each sub-sector and at the general government level; that is, any debt liabilities of government which are held as assets by another part of government are removed.

Associated publications: Public Sector Finances, November 2015

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.Annex C – Glossary

The main terms used in this bulletin are:

  • net borrowing – measures the gap between revenue raised (current receipts) and total spending (current expenditure plus net investment); a positive value indicates borrowing (also known as a deficit) while a negative value indicates a surplus

  • gross debt – is a measure of how much the government owes at a point in time

  • gross domestic product (GDP) – a measure of the total economic activity in a country or region. Therefore a country’s gross debt, represented as a proportion of their GDP, can be thought of as a measurement of that country’s ability to pay back its debt

  • asset purchase facility fund – an arm of the Bank of England able to purchase financial assets including government securities (gilts). The APF has earned interest which is periodically transferred back to central government

  • Maastricht deficit – general government net borrowing as defined within the Maastricht Treaty and Stability and Growth Pact (and as supplied to Eurostat)

  • Maastricht debt – general government gross debt as defined within the Maastricht Treaty and Stability and Growth Pact (and as supplied to Eurostat)

  • public sector net borrowing (PSNB ex) – includes central government, local government, public corporations and Bank of England but excludes public sector banks

  • public sector net debt (PSND ex) – includes central government, local government, public sector corporations and Bank of England but excludes public sector banks

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.Background notes

  1. Government deficit and debt under the Maastricht Treaty

    Article 126 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (commonly known as the Maastricht Treaty) obliges member states to avoid excessive budgetary deficits. The Protocol on the Excessive Deficit Procedure, annexed to the Maastricht Treaty, defines 2 criteria and reference values for compliance. These are a deficit to Gross Domestic Product (GDP) ratio of 3%, and a debt to GDP ratio of 60%.

    EU member states have to report their actual and planned government deficits, and their levels of debt, to the European Commission to specific deadlines twice each year. Supporting information, including current values for deficit and debt, are reported quarterly. The estimates in this statistical bulletin are supplied to the European Commission by ONS in accordance with the schedules in the Excessive Deficit Procedure.

    The Protocol on the Excessive Deficit Procedure defines government deficit and debt following the rules and principles laid out in the European System of Accounts 2010. This is also the manual that governs the United Kingdom’s National Accounts.

    The debt measure reported includes liabilities of currency, deposits, debt securities and loans at face value. Excluded are contingent liabilities as well as those related to equity, derivatives, pensions and accounts payable.

  2. Data quality

    Data in this bulletin are consistent with those published in the latest Public Sector Finances statistical bulletin. A summary quality report for this publication and the public sector finances is available on our website. This report describes in detail the intended uses of the statistics presented in this publication, their general quality and the methods used to produce them.

  3. Coherence

    The net borrowing (or deficit) data in this statistical bulletin are based on those published in the Public Sector Finances statistical bulletin of 22 December 2015. The estimate of GDP used in this bulletin is consistent with that published on 23 December 2015 in the UK National Accounts.

    In accordance with European Commission practice, debt as a percentage of GDP is calculated as the debt at the end of a period divided by the GDP for the preceding year. This differs from the treatment in the Public Sector Finances where debt at a period in time is divided by the annual GDP centred at that same point in time. We have recently published an article describing The use of GDP in fiscal ratio statistics.

  4. Relevance to users

    The UK Statistics Authority last conducted an assessment of the EU Government Deficit and Debt Return statistical bulletin in 2015 to ensure that the bulletin and its compilation methods fully comply with all requirements of the National Statistics Code of Practice. A report of their findings was published on 8 October 2015. We are working to comply with the requirements itemised in the Authority’s report.

    The Authority has designated these statistics as National Statistics, in accordance with the Statistics and Registration Service Act 2007 and signifying compliance with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics.

    Designation can be broadly interpreted to mean that the statistics:

    • meet identified user needs
    • are well explained and readily accessible
    • are produced according to sound methods
    • are managed impartially and objectively in the public interest

    Once statistics have been designated as National Statistics it is a statutory requirement that the Code of Practice shall continue to be observed.

    As part of our continuous engagement strategy, we welcome comments on how else we might improve the government deficit and debt statistical bulletin. If you have recommendations for the improvement of the government deficit and debt statistical bulletin, please email them to psa@ons.gov.uk or see the contact details below.

  5. Relevant links

    The latest public sector finances statistical bulletin is available on our website.

    Eurostat analyse all data provided by member states and publish a press release which places the UK figures in a European context and provides commentary on any issues specific to member states.

    Details of the revisions policy for this and the other public sector finances statistical bulletins are available at Public Sector Statistics Revisions policy.

    Information on the classification of institutional units for the purposes of National Accounts can be found at National Accounts classifications.

    An inventory of the data sources used within the data supplied for the Excessive Deficit Procedure is available on our website.

  6. Publication policy

    A complete set of EU government deficit and debt return publications are available to download free of charge on our website. A complete set of Maastricht supplementary data tables included in this release are also available. An electronic dataset is made available within the supplementary data release, which is consistent with the headline figures described in this bulletin.

  7. Revisions

    We publish revisions analysis on our website, showing the average revision for initial estimates compared with those calculated one year later over the last 10 years. It should be noted that methodological changes can have a significant effect on revisions observed; for example the implementation of ESA 2010 in September 2014 has a significant effect on revisions observed in that period. Therefore while this revisions analysis may be of interest, users should be wary about using the size of revisions as a measure of the reliability of early estimates of data.

    A summary of the information in the revisions analysis linked above can be found in the Summary table of revision indicators.

    Table 2: Summary table of revision indicators

    UK
    £ million
    General GovernmentValue in latest periodAverage revision1 over the last 10 yearsAbsolute average revision2 over the last 10 years
    Net borrowing - Calendar year103,024-2,1993,630
    Net borrowing - Financial year91,9314,8345,827
    Gross debt - Calendar year1,602,1948,9929,082
    Gross debt - Financial year1,601,2879,7659,896
    Source: Office for National Statistics
    Notes:
    1. Average revision of the initial estimate compared to the estimate made one year later.
    2. Average revision of the initial estimate compared to the estimate made one year later without regard to sign.

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    Further information on these and other revisions can be found in the PSF statistical bulletin and the summary quality report relating to EDP and PSF statistics.

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