{"value":{"id":1305449,"memberId":4689,"member":null,"memberRole":"Minister of State","uin":"HLWS878","dateMade":"2021-03-24T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":14,"answeringBodyName":"Treasury","title":"Public Spending","text":"<p>My right honourable friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Steve Barclay) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.</p><p>On 15 February the UK Government announced an additional £2.1 billion for the devolved administrations through the Barnett formula to support people, businesses and public services affected by coronavirus. This was on top of the £16.8 billion that had previously been guaranteed.</p><p>In recognition of the exceptional circumstances and in response to calls for flexibility, the devolved administrations were given the option to carry forward any of the £2.1 billion into 2021-22 on top of their existing facilities to transfer funding between financial years.</p><p>The devolved administrations have now confirmed they wish to carry forward the following amounts. They will receive this funding at Main Estimates 2021-22.</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>£million</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scottish Government</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Welsh Government</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland Executive</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Resource DEL excluding depreciation</p></td><td><p>873.510</p></td><td><p>497.557</p></td><td><p>238.054</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capital DEL (general)</p></td><td><p>236.845</p></td><td><p>137.130</p></td><td><p>74.964</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capital DEL (Financial Transactions)</p></td><td><p>41.532</p></td><td><p>25.530</p></td><td><p>14.039</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total DEL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>1,151.888</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>660.218</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>327.057</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The devolved administrations’ 2020-21 funding as at Supplementary Estimates 2020-21 is therefore being reduced by the same amount.</p><p>In line with the Statement of Funding Policy the Welsh Government is also switching £501 million from Resource DEL to Capital DEL (general).</p><p>This means that revised 2020-21 funding is as follows:</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><strong>£million</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Scottish Government</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Welsh Government</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>Northern Ireland Executive</strong></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Resource DEL excluding depreciation</p></td><td><p>39,210.215</p></td><td><p>17,923.931</p></td><td><p>14,974.531</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capital DEL (general)</p></td><td><p>4,836.545</p></td><td><p>2,837.569</p></td><td><p>1,591.874</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Capital DEL (Financial Transactions)</p></td><td><p>612.198</p></td><td><p>313.696</p></td><td><p>214.816</p></td></tr><tr><td><p><strong>Total DEL</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>44,658.957</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>21,075.195</strong></p></td><td><p><strong>16,781.222</strong></p></td></tr></tbody></table>","house":"Lords","noticeNumber":0,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1305441,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2021-03-24T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1305449","method":"GET"}]}