{"value":{"id":1222422,"memberId":4336,"member":null,"memberRole":"Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Climate Change and Corporate Responsibility)","uin":"HLWS347","dateMade":"2020-07-09T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":201,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy","title":"Contingencies Fund Advance – Vaccines Programme","text":"<p>My Right Honourable friend the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (Alok Sharma) has today made the following statement:</p><p>I hereby give notice of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s intention to seek an advance from the contingencies fund totalling £3,360,000 to enable expenditure on Covid-19 vaccines programme to be spent ahead of the passage of the Supply and Appropriation Act.</p><p> </p><p>The funding is urgently required for HM Government to secure manufacturing capability for a possible antibody treatment.</p><p>Parliamentary approval for additional resources of £3,360,000 for this new expenditure will be sought in a Main Estimate for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £3,360,000 will be met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.</p><p>The cash advances will be repaid upon receiving Royal Assent on the Supply and Appropriation Bill.</p>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1222421,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2020-07-09T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1222422","method":"GET"}]}