Public Expenditure

(asked on 21st March 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment he has made of the budgetary implications of lower-than-predicted growth rates for government departments other than the Department for International Development.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 24th March 2016

Departmental budgets were set at Spending Review 2015.

Budget 2016 announced an adjustment to Official Development Assistance spend to account for the lower growth forecast.

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