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Public Spending: Devolved Administrations

Volume 691: debated on Wednesday 24 March 2021

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.

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.

The devolved Administrations have now confirmed they wish to carry forward the following amounts. They will receive this funding at Main Estimates 2021-22.

£million

Scottish Government

Welsh Government

Northern Ireland Executive

Resource DEL excluding depreciation

873.510

497.557

238.054

Capital DEL (general)

236.845

137.130

74.964

Capital DEL (Financial Transactions)

41.532

25.530

14.039

Total DEL

1,151.888

660.218

327.057

The devolved Administrations’ 2020-21 funding as at Supplementary Estimates 2020-21 is therefore being reduced by the same amount.

In line with the Statement of Funding Policy, the Welsh Government are also switching £501 million from Resource DEL to Capital DEL (general).

This means that revised 2020-21 funding is as follows:

£million

Scottish Government

Welsh Government

Northern Ireland Executive

Resource DEL excluding depreciation

39,210.215

17,923.931

14,974.531

Capital DEL (general)

4,836.545

2,837.569

1,591.874

Capital DEL (Financial Transactions)

612.198

313.696

214.816

Total DEL

44,65.8957

21,075.195

16,781.222

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