Cabinet Office: Departmental Expenditure Limits

(asked on 19th November 2025) - View Source

Question to the Cabinet Office:

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 16 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, what proportion of the underspend in Departmental Expenditure Limit spending has been (a) returned to the Consolidated Fund and (b) re-profiled for spending in 2025–26.


Answered by
Chris Ward Portrait
Chris Ward
Parliamentary Secretary (Cabinet Office)
This question was answered on 27th November 2025

At the end of the financial year, all underspends are returned to the Consolidated Fund.

The Cabinet Office did not re-profile any spending into 2025-26 from 2024-25.

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