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Public Expenditure: Wales

Volume 468: debated on Monday 26 November 2007

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer (1) what the change to the budget of the National Assembly for Wales has been arising from the application of the Barnett formula comparability factor to expenditure on (a) the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, (b) London and Continental Railway and (c) the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; (168340)

(2) what the areas of devolved expenditure are upon which the comparability assessment for nuclear non-proliferation set out in the Statement of Funding Policy was based;

(3) how much has been spent on Cycling England since its inception; and what the corresponding change to the budget of the National Assembly for Wales was as a result of applying the Barnett formula comparability factor to this expenditure.

The expenditure by the UK Government on the Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew, London and Continental Railway and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link has no effect on the budget of the National Assembly for Wales. Although the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform incurs expenditure on nuclear non-proliferation and subscriptions to international organisations on behalf of the UK, elements of the spending in relation to subscriptions are devolved. Expenditure is no longer recorded by the Treasury on a separate programme object for Cycling England; such spending is now subsumed within other transport programmes.