Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Capital Investment
(asked on 27th November 2017) - View Source
Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, with reference to the Autumn budget, what his Department's capital budget will be for (a) 2018-19, (b) 2019-20 and (c) 2020-21, and how that spending will be allocated.
Following the announcements in the Autumn budget, the Department’s capital budgets and allocations are:
£m | 2018/19 | 2019/20 | 2020/21 |
Ring-fenced: Flood Defences | 450.4 | 490.0 | 459.0 |
Ring-fenced: Official Development Assistance | 37.4 | 35.4 | 45.5 |
Other | 166.2 | 100.9 | 85.5 |
Total | 654.0 | 626.3 | 590.0 |
Allocation of the ‘other’ amounts is confirmed on an annual basis.
This mainly covers investment in our I.T systems to improve efficiency; renovating and developing our Estate to make it fit for purpose; and developing Kew’s facilities to preserve its status of world-leading botanic gardens.
Defra’s total capital spend in each of these three years will be higher than in both 2010/11 (£548m) and 2015/16 (£493m).