Public Expenditure: Northern Ireland

(asked on 19th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the document entitled UK Infrastructure: A 10 Year Strategy, CP 1344, published on 19 June 2025, if he will publish the Barnett consequential for Northern Ireland for each new item of funding announced in that strategy.


Answered by
Darren Jones Portrait
Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 26th June 2025

The Barnett formula is applied when departmental budgets change – not when departments announce how they are spending their budgets.

When changes to UK Government departments’ budgets were confirmed at Spending Review 2025 on 11 June, the Barnett formula was applied in the usual way, providing Barnett consequentials to the Northern Ireland Executive. The devolved governments are receiving the largest Spending Review settlements, in real terms, since devolution in 1998.

The published Block Grant Transparency document provides a detailed breakdown of how the block grants are calculated and the next version will be published in due course.

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