{"value":{"id":1312527,"memberId":3991,"member":null,"memberRole":"The Financial Secretary to the Treasury","uin":"HCWS945","dateMade":"2021-04-28T00:00:00","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>Parliamentary approval for additional resources of £7,792,000,000 for this new expenditure will be sought in a Main Estimate for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs.</p><p>Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £7,792,000,000 will be met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.</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":1312529,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2021-04-28T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1312527","method":"GET"}]}