Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:
To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, what the change was to the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' budget in real and cash terms in each year from 2010-11 to 2016-17.
Business Innovation and Skills’ (BIS) budgets decreased by 6.5%, in real terms, between 2010 and 2017 (14.9% decrease in cash terms). The year on year decrease is as follows:
Note: “BIS budgets” refers to total Departmental Expenditure Limits, excluding depreciation, taken from Departmental Estimates. The 2016-17 figures are based on the Main Estimate due to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) was created in July 2016.
Change from previous year | ||
Real | Cash | |
2011-12 | -8.1% | -9.3% |
2012-13 | -1.5% | -3.4% |
2013-14 | 4.0% | 2.1% |
2014-15 | -1.9% | -3.1% |
2015-16 | -3.3% | -4.0% |
2016-17 | 4.5% | 2.3% |