Attorney General: Departmental Expenditure Limits

(asked on 4th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Attorney General:

To ask the Solicitor General, what her Department’s capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be in each year of the Spending Review period; how much capital funding has been allocated to each of her Department’s programmes; and how much and what proportion of the capital DEL allocation remains unallocated in each year.


Answered by
Ellie Reeves Portrait
Ellie Reeves
Solicitor General (Attorney General's Office)
This question was answered on 12th December 2025

The Law Officer Departments have a capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) as follows:

2025-26 – 0.1b

2026-27 – 0.1b

2027-28 – 0.1b

2028-29 – 0.2b

2029-30 – 0.0b

Future years CDEL allocations are subject to planning in the usual way.

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