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In 2000 the spending was £7.5bn, £13.93bn in today's money.
In 2000 the population of the UK was 58.9m, in 2024 it's 68.5m.
Bit of back of a napkin maths (not my strong point so happy to be corrected!), spending is up by nearly 70% per capita, adjusted for inflation since the millennium.