Oral Answers to Questions Debate

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Oral Answers to Questions

Philip Hollobone Excerpts
Wednesday 6th January 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John Bercow Portrait Mr Speaker
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Last but not least Mr Philip Hollobone.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Philip Hollobone (Kettering) (Con)
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9. What the administrative cost of running his Department was in 2010; and what he expects that cost to be in 2020.

David Mundell Portrait The Secretary of State for Scotland (David Mundell)
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The administrative cost of running the Scotland Office and Office of the Advocate General for Scotland in the financial year 2010-11 was £7.688 million. The administrative provision for both offices in 2019-20, agreed at the recent spending review, is £9.240 million.

Philip Hollobone Portrait Mr Hollobone
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Will the Secretary of State confirm to the House what percentage of his Department’s administrative costs is met by Scottish taxpayers?

David Mundell Portrait David Mundell
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My hon. Friend knows that the funding arrangements within the United Kingdom do not work on that basis. He also knows that this Government are committed to retaining the Barnett formula, which delivers a fair allocation of funding to Scotland.