Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many times the Contingencies Fund has been used since 2010; and how much was used from that fund on each such occasion and for what purpose.

The details of the activities in the Contingencies Fund in connection with advances made can be found in the published annual accounts.

The link for each published account from the financial years 2004/05 to 2016/17 is at: https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/hmt-central-funds

For each of the accounts, the advances and repayments that contributed to cash flow in each financial year, and the analysis of reasons for issue of advances, are disclosed in the Performance analysis section or relevant Notes to the accounts.

Information on advances in 2017/18 will be published in the Contingencies Fund 2017/18 Accounts in July 2018.