Asked by: Baroness Seccombe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Defence Investment Plan announced on 30 June, by what date they intend to confirm the source of the remaining £4.7 billion of funding not yet identified; and what assessment they have made of the impact on other departments' capital budgets of reallocating £10.3 billion to fund the measures set out in the plan.
Answered by Lord Pitt-Watson - Parliamentary Secretary (HM Treasury)
The Defence Investment Plan confirmed that of the £15 billion uplift to defence spending over the next four years, £10.3 billion is funded by reprioritising public spending from other departments.
The remaining £4.7 billion of funding will be confirmed at Autumn Budget 2026 in a fair and balanced way.
To fund the £10.3 billion already committed, departments have been asked to contribute 1p in every £1 of their capital budgets from this year. As departments with larger capital budgets, the Department for Transport (DfT) and the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) have been asked to make further contributions.
DfT will provide savings of up to £700m from its roads funding, and will explore limited reductions to as-yet uncommitted roads funding.
DESNZ will find an additional £2 billion in savings - including £400m Financial Transactions – while maintaining the fastest-growing capital budget out of any department across this spending review period. They will reshape their capital budget in a way which continues to protect the clean power mission, drive renewable and nuclear build-out and insulate us from future gas price spikes on the path to energy independence.
Further detail will be set out at the Autumn Budget.
Asked by: Baroness Seccombe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Deighton on 9 March (HL5216), whether they will place in the Library of the House a breakdown of the 220 individual transactions in 2006–07 in the Economic Secretary to HM Treasury's departmental private office, in the light of the previous Government's response to the House of Commons Procedure Committee Report on Written Parliamentary Questions on 7 December 2009 which stated "The Ministerial Code makes it clear that Ministers should refuse to provide information which they hold only when disclosure would not be in the public interest, which should be decided in accordance with the relevant statutes and the Freedom of Information Act 2000".
Answered by Lord Deighton
I refer the noble Lady to my answer of 9 March (HL5216) on the same topic.
Asked by: Baroness Seccombe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Deighton on 13 May 2014 (WA 473–74), whether they will place in the Library of the House a breakdown of the 220 individual transactions in 2006–07 in the Economic Secretary to HM Treasury's departmental private office.
Answered by Lord Deighton
It would not be appropriate to give specific details of the costs incurred by ministers in pervious administrations.
Asked by: Baroness Seccombe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what estimate they have made of the annual cost of paying the Living Wage across the public sector.
Answered by Lord Deighton
The Government does not have an estimate of the cost of applying the living wage across the public sector.
The Government supports all employers who choose to pay the living wage and encourages businesses to pay the living wage where it is affordable.
For the pay review body workforces and central government the majority of pay scale points are above the living wage.
Asked by: Baroness Seccombe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what was the annual budget of Cycling England in 2010/11 or the last financial year for which figures are available.
Answered by Lord Deighton
The annual budget provided by the Department for Transport to Cycling England in 2010-11 was £63 million.
Asked by: Baroness Seccombe (Conservative - Life peer)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask Her Majesty’s Government what is the annual Bikeability budget for the current and next financial year.
Answered by Lord Deighton
The annual budget set by the Department for Transport for its Bikeability programme is: £11.7 million in 2014-15; and £11.9m in 2015-16.