Question to the Home Office:
To ask the Senior Deputy Speaker what the annual budget for the House of Lords was for each of the last five years; and what is the estimated budget for the House of Lords for each of the next two years.
The table below shows the original budget figures for the last 5 years, current year and subsequent two financial years:
EXPENDITURE TYPE |
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| 2015-2016 ORIGINAL BUDGET | 2016-2017 ORIGINAL BUDGET | 2017-2018 ORIGINAL BUDGET | 2018-2019 ORIGINAL BUDGET | 2019-2020 ORIGINAL BUDGET | 2020-2021 ORIGINAL BUDGET | 2021-2022 ORIGINAL BUDGET | 2022-2023 ORIGINAL BUDGET |
Capital | 27,602 | 45,409 | 55,396 | 65,855 | 81,710 | 67,132 | 59,089 | 50,206 |
Resource | 103,035 | 108,832 | 123,207 | 132,335 | 176,305 | 140,970 | 149,615 | 154,772 |
Total | 130,637 | 154,241 | 178,603 | 198,190 | 258,015 | 208,102 | 208,704 | 204,978 |
The following points should be noted:
• The budgets from 2020-21 onwards are based upon figures approved by the Commission in January 2020 and are agreed as part of a rolling 3-year planning cycle
• The budgets for Restoration and Renewal and the Shadow Sponsor Body are included within the relevant years up to 2019-20, but not in subsequent years.