Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September to Question 40737 on Ukraine: Military Aid, how much each Department contributed; and how much of each contribution came from a departmental under spend for this financial year.
Answered by John Glen
Earlier this year, the UK provided £1bn in additional support to enhance and sustain Ukraine’s resistance to the Russian invasion. This new funding came from contributions from UK government departments and the devolved administrations’ existing budgets.
All ministerial departments contributed capital from their 2022-23 budgets towards military aid for Ukraine. I refer the rt honourable member to the answer given by my predecessor (Simon Clarke MP) on 5th September 2022 to PQ UIN 14298 for the full list.
Most departments committed around 1.5% of their 2022-23 capital budgets.
These contributions will be formally confirmed at Supplementary Estimates, where revised departmental budgets will be published by HM Treasury in the usual way.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what debt relief the UK will provide to Ukraine to help ensure economic stability during winter 2022.
Answered by Andrew Griffith - Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade
On 20 July, the UK, as part of the Group of Creditors to Ukraine, announced a debt service suspension for Ukraine from 1 August 2022 to December 2023. This agreement means that Ukraine will face no repayments to these bilateral creditors over this period, which eases liquidity pressures and allows the government to focus its scarce resources on more urgent budgetary needs, thus helping to mitigate the economic impact of Russia’s illegal war in Ukraine.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 5 September 2022 to Question 40737 on Ukraine: Military Aid, if he will provide a breakdown of the amount contributed by each Department listed.
Answered by Chris Philp - Shadow Home Secretary
I refer the rt honourable member to the answer given by my predecessor (Simon Clarke MP) on 5th September 2022 to PQ UIN 14298.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 19 July 2022 to Question 36000 on Ukraine: Military Aid, from which Departments has the additional £1 billion of support to Ukraine been drawn from.
Answered by Simon Clarke
All ministerial departments contributed from their 2022-23 capital budgets towards military aid for Ukraine. See full list below:
Attorney General’s Office; Cabinet Office; Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy; Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport; Department for Education; Department for Environment Food, & Rural Affairs; Department for International Trade; Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities; Department for Transport; Department for Work and Pensions; Department of Health and Social Care; Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office; HM Treasury; Home Office; and Ministry of Justice;
We also received contributions from the Scottish Government, the Welsh Government and the Territorial Offices (the Office of the Secretary of State for Scotland, the Office of the Secretary of State for Wales, and the Northern Ireland Office).
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 27 June 2022 to Question 23221 on Military Aid: Ukraine, how many meetings of the National Security Council he has personally attended since April 2022.
Answered by Simon Clarke
The National Security Council is a committee of the Cabinet. It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees, and how often they have met, is not normally shared publicly.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many meetings of the National Security Council he has attended since April 2022.
Answered by Simon Clarke
The National Security Council is a committee of the Cabinet. It is a long-established precedent that information about the discussions that have taken place in Cabinet and its Committees, and how often they have met, is not normally shared publicly.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether his Department plans to take account of inflation when calculating the funds to be provided to the Ministry of Defence for replacing the stockpiles of weapons supplied to Ukraine.
Answered by Simon Clarke
HM Treasury provides departments with settlements on a cash basis, and they are expected to manage the impacts of inflation within these settlements.
Last month, the Government announced an additional £1.3bn funding for military support to Ukraine. This funding was provided for the 2022/23 financial year and reflective of latest cost forecasts.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the total estimated cost is of the reduction to day-to-day spending at his Department between 1 April 2022 and 2025 based on the predicted levels of inflation for that period.
Answered by Helen Whately - Shadow Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
As part of SR21, departments were asked to meet strict planning assumptions which were based on the expectation that departments would deliver savings over the Spending Review period. At SR21 the government also committed to reducing non-frontline civil service headcount to 2019-20 levels by 2024-25, bar justifiable exemptions.
As a result of this HMT’s day-to-day nominal spending is planned to reduce by £25m between April 2022 and April 2025.
Asked by: John Healey (Labour - Rawmarsh and Conisbrough)
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of (a) 10 November 2021 to Question 68120 on Ministry of Defence: Fines and (b) 19 November 2021 to Question 75808 on Government Departments: Fines, what information his Department holds on remedial actions imposed by his Department on (i) the Ministry of Defence and (ii) other Government Departments, in the latest period for which data is available.
Answered by Simon Clarke
The Treasury answered UIN 68120 on 10 November 2021 confirming that the department does not hold a central record of the remedial actions that have historically been taken, and such actions can take many forms.
The Minister for Defense Procurement’s answers of 9th and 10th November (to questions UIN 68119 and 68120) explained the actions taken in respect of the cases reported in the department’s annual reports and accounts, and explained the reasons why these were reportable. Other Government departments will report fines in their annual reports and accounts in a similar manner.
Fines imposed by the Treasury on other government departments are considered fruitless payment, a form of loss. Managing Public Money directs departments to report fruitless payments in the Loss Statement of the Parliamentary Accountability section of their annual report and accounts.
Departments are in the process of laying and publishing annual reports and accounts for the 2020-21 period. Annual reports and accounts for central government departments for 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21 are linked in the Central Government Department’s annual reports and accounts central landing page.