Public Spending: Devolved Administrations
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The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Steve Barclay)
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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