{"value":{"id":1172822,"memberId":4441,"member":null,"memberRole":"Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office ","uin":"HCWS58","dateMade":"2020-01-23T00:00:00","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 £19,740,000.</p><p>This routine requirement arises each year 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 £19,094,000 and capital of £646,000 will be sought in a Supplementary Estimate for the Cabinet Office. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £19,740,000 will be met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.</p><p> </p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":4,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1172822","method":"GET"}]}