Public Sector Debt: Gifts and Endowments

(asked on 26th February 2020) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many payments have been made to the donations and bequests account in respect of the national debt in each financial year since 2009-10; and what the value of those payments was in each of those years.


Answered by
John Glen Portrait
John Glen
Paymaster General and Minister for the Cabinet Office
This question was answered on 5th March 2020

Details of the donations and bequests received for each financial year since 2009-10 are reflected in the table below:

Financial year

Number of donations/bequests

Amount of donations/bequests (£)

2009-10

6

168,041

2010-11

11

54,709

2011-12

12

21,110

2012-13

12

406,556

2013-14

16

799,390

2014-15

13

7,823

2015-16

15

14,558

2016-17

15

180,393

2017-18

5

762

2018-19

15

11,069

This information has been publicly available since 2014-15 in a combined annual report for the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt (CRND) receipts and payments accounts which is available on the DMO website and can be accessed via the following link:

https://www.dmo.gov.uk/publications/annual-reports-and-accounts/

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