{"value":{"id":1309948,"memberId":3991,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Financial Secretary to the Treasury","uin":"HCWS921","dateMade":"2021-04-19T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":14,"answeringBodyName":"Treasury","title":"Contingencies Fund Advance","text":"<p>Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs will incur new expenditure in connection with the government’s response to the Covid-19 pandemic in 2021-22.</p><p> </p><p>Parliamentary approval for additional resources of  £6,065,000,000  for this new expenditure will be sought in a Main Estimate for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at  £6,065,000,000  will be met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.</p><p> </p><p>Further requests to the Contingencies Fund may be made as necessary to fund Covid-19 activity delivered by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":1,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1309951,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2021-04-19T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1309948","method":"GET"}]}