Treasury: Departmental Expenditure Limits

(asked on 4th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, with reference to the policy papers entitled Spending Review 2025, published on 30 June 2025, and Budget 2025, published on 28 November 2025, what their 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 their Department’s programmes; and how much and what proportion of the capital DEL allocation remains unallocated in each year.


Answered by
James Murray Portrait
James Murray
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 12th December 2025

The capital DEL budget is as published in the Spending Review 2025 documentation. The detailed allocation of the capital DEL budget is still to be finalised in the annual business planning process.

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