Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, how much his Department spent on civil emergency planning in each year since 2010.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy and it’s predecessors has spent the following on civil emergency planning in each financial year since 2011/2012, from when data is available:
Financial Year | Total Spend |
2011/2012 | £6,273,862 |
2012/2013 | £9,113,498 |
2013/2014 | £10,061,333 |
2014/2015 | £12,577,060 |
2015/2016 | £12,175,457 |
2016/2017 | £14,407,109 |
2017/2018 (Current figure spend until end of Jan) | £13,749,151 |
These costs include both staff administrative and programme spend. Administrative spend includes salaries for those employed to work on emergency planning. Programme spend relates projects preparing for civil emergencies, including training, exercising and resourcing for emergency response.