Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, 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 Hilary Benn - Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
The Northern Ireland Office’s Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) settlements for the Spending Review period are set out below. Regarding the unallocated portion of the budget; currently, we have no unallocated CDEL in each year of the Spending Review period.
Programme Group | 2025-26 | 2026-27 | 2027-28 | 2028-29 | 2029-30 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
NIO | £0.623m | £2.043m | £0.178m | £0.193m | £2.393m |
ALB | £0.523m | £0.868m | £0.108m | £0.108m | £0.108m |
ICRIR | £1.669m | £7.881m | £0.100m | £0.100m | £0.100m |
Total Capital DEL | £2.815m | £10.792m | £0.386m | £0.401m | £2.601m |
Asked by: Liam Byrne (Labour - Birmingham Hodge Hill and Solihull North)
Question to the Northern Ireland Office:
To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, which spending programmes their Department devolves for administration to (a) local government in England and (b) other local spending bodies; and what the budget is of each such programme for each year for which budgets are agreed.
Answered by Steve Baker
The Northern Ireland Office does not devolve the administration of any of its spending programmes to local government in England.
A range of policy areas are transferred to the Northern Ireland Executive as set out in the Northern Ireland Act 1998 and subsequent legislation. The Secretary of State and I remain committed to working with the political parties in Northern Ireland to pave the way for the restoration of a fully functioning Northern Ireland Executive and Assembly, so that local decision making can occur by those elected to do so.