Contingencies Fund Advance Debate

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Department: HM Treasury
Monday 27th April 2020

(4 years, 7 months ago)

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Jesse Norman Portrait The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jesse Norman)
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HM Revenue and Customs will incur new expenditure in connection with the Government’s response to the coronavirus covid-19 pandemic in 2020-21.

Parliamentary approval for additional resources of £42,000,000,000 for this new expenditure will be sought in the main estimate 2020-21 for HM Revenue and Customs. Pending that approval, urgent expenditure estimated at £42,000,000,000 will be met by repayable cash advances from the Contingencies Fund.

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