Cabinet Office Consolidated Fund Standing Service Debate
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Cabinet Office Consolidated Fund Standing Service
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The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Chris Skidmore)
The UK general election took place on 8 June 2017, resulting in an increase in non-voted programme resource departmental expenditure limit of £140,850,000.
This forecast covers England, Scotland and Wales and comprises:
£98,310,000 to cover fees and expenses incurred by returning officers in running the poll.
£42,540,000 to cover primarily the delivery of elections addresses at public expense by the universal service provider (Royal Mail) in accordance with legislation.
The additional non-voted resources of £140,850,000 will be shown in Cabinet Office’s supplementary estimate 2017-18.
Change | New Total | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Voted | Non-Voted | Voted | Non-Voted | |
Resource DEL | - | 140,850,000 | 353,520,000 | 148,227,000 |
Of which: | ||||
Administration budget | - | - | 160,939,000 | - |
Depreciation | - | - | 35,000,000 | - |
Capital DEL | - | - | 97,010,000 | - |
Having drawn down £140,850,000, the Cabinet Office will transfer £14,359,330 at supplementary estimate 2017-18 to the Scotland Office to cover forecast election expenses in Scotland.
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