{"value":{"id":1181140,"memberId":1571,"member":null,"memberRole":"Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster and Minister for the Cabinet Office","uin":"HCWS134","dateMade":"2020-02-27T00:00:00","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 £82,663,000.</p><p>This routine requirement arises each year because the Cabinet Office receives a 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.</p><p>Parliamentary approval for additional resources of £53,885,000 and capital of £27,903,000 and cash of £875,000 will be sought in a Supplementary Estimate for the Cabinet Office. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £82,663,000 will be met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.</p><p> </p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":1,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":false,"linkedStatements":null,"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1181140","method":"GET"}]}