Public Expenditure

(asked on 5th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Her Majesty's Government whether any sums of money have been transferred from capital accounts to revenue accounts for the Scottish Parliament, the Welsh Assembly and the Northern Ireland Assembly for the last three years for which figures are available; and, if so, what sums.


Answered by
Lord Bates Portrait
Lord Bates
This question was answered on 19th March 2019

Any transfers from capital to resource budgets must be approved by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury.

Transfers from the Devolved Administrations’ capital to resource budgets for the past three years are set out in the table below.

£million

2016-17

2017-18

2018-19

Scottish Government

0.0

0.0

0.0

Welsh Government

0.0

0.0

24.8

Northern Ireland Administration

0.0

33.5

138.7

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