{"value":{"id":1314926,"memberId":4414,"member":null,"memberRole":"Minister for London and Parliamentary Under Secretary of State (Minister for Small Business, Consumers and Labour Markets)","uin":"HCWS29","dateMade":"2021-05-17T00:00:00","answeringBodyId":201,"answeringBodyName":"Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy","title":"Contingencies Fund Advance","text":"<p>I hereby give notice of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy having drawn an advance from the contingencies fund totalling £3,380,663,000 to enable expenditure on Covid-19 support packages for business to be spent ahead of the passage of the Supply and Appropriation Act.</p><p>The funding is required for the Restart Grant scheme.</p><p>Parliamentary approval for additional resources of £3,380,663,000 will be sought in a Main Estimate for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £3,380,663,000 has been met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.</p><p>The cash advance will be repaid upon receiving the Supply and Appropriation Act.</p>","house":"Commons","noticeNumber":2,"hasAttachments":false,"hasLinkedStatements":true,"linkedStatements":[{"linkedStatementId":1314933,"linkType":"JointStatement","linkDate":"2021-05-17T00:00:00"}],"attachments":[]},"links":[{"rel":"self","href":"/Statements/1314926","method":"GET"}]}