Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: Public Expenditure

(asked on 23rd April 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy:

To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, with reference to row 7 of the table on page 250 of his Department's publication, Annual Report and Accounts 2017-18, if he will publish a breakdown of the figures under the heading entitled, Taking action on climate change and decarbonisation (ALB) net for (a) 2014-15, (b) 2015-16, (c) 2016-17, and (d) 2017-18.


Answered by
Andrew Stephenson Portrait
Andrew Stephenson
Minister of State (Department of Health and Social Care)
This question was answered on 29th April 2019

The breakdown of expenditure for 2014-15, 2015-16, 2016-17 and 2017-18 under the heading Taking action on climate change and decarbonisation (ALB) net is as shown in the following table:

£k

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

Bad debts

-

-

7

-

Depreciation/amortisation

64,863

54,350

29,000

43,102

Impairment/revaluation

-3,081

-

-

262,713

Purchase of goods and services

-

-

-

92,900

Take up of provision

5,573,765

89,751,230

2,821,509

70,768,099

Take up of provision (Change in pensions liability)

8,806

-7,648

-

-

Unwinding of discount rate (pensions)

-

-

-

373

Unwinding of discount rate (provisions)

-

-

-

-1,255,331

Total Nuclear Decommissioning Authority

5,644,353

89,797,932

2,850,516

69,911,856

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