Question to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs:
To ask Her Majesty's Government what are the projected costs of the Movement Assistance Scheme for the next financial year.
The total cost of the Movement Assistance Scheme up to 31 January 2022, the latest date for which data is available, was £12.36 million. Of this total, £8.83 million has been expended in the current financial year. The forecast expenditure for the next financial year, 2022/23, is £13.1 million.