{"value":{"id":1168536,"memberId":4441,"member":null,"memberRole":"Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office","uin":"HCWS15","dateMade":"2019-12-20T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":53,"answeringBodyName":"Cabinet Office","title":"Advance from the Contingencies Fund","text":"<p>The Cabinet Office has sought a repayable cash advance from the Contingencies Fund of £107,134,000.</p><p>The requirement has arisen because the Cabinet Office receives a relatively high proportion of its voted funding at Supplementary Estimate, and as a consequence may only draw the related cash from the Consolidated Fund after the Supply and Appropriation Act has received Royal Assent in March 2020.</p><p>The cash advance will pay for programmes which will generate Government-wide benefits or savings and are urgent in the public interest, including advancing EU Exit objectives, public inquiries, security and the efficient management of Government property.</p><p>Parliamentary approval for additional resources of £70,046,000 and capital of £2,088,000 and cash of £35,000,000 will be sought in a Supplementary Estimate for the Cabinet Office. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £107,134,000 will be met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":1,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1168536","method":"GET"}]}