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 8 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, Managing our energy legacy safely and responsibly (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 Managing our energy legacy safely and responsibly (ALB) net is as shown in the following table:

£k

2014-15

2015-16

2016-17

2017-18

Civil Nuclear Police Authority

Take up of provision

76

-317

115

-1

Unwinding of discount rate (provisions)

106

45

27

Utilisation of provisions

-693

-554

-284

-267

Total Civil Nuclear Police Authority

-511

-826

-142

-268

Coal Authority

Bad debts

-

-

9

-

Depreciation/amortisation

-

-

141

-

Impairment/revaluation

6,676

5,290

4,911

5,477

Take up of provision

-66,867

1,907,875

43,801

1,555,047

Unwinding of discount rate (provisions)

11,579

10,503

-23,799

-26,956

Utilisation of provisions

-16,712

-16,378

-23,002

-26,194

Total Coal Authority

-65,324

1,907,290

2,061

1,507,374

Oil and Gas Authority

Notional Costs

-

-14

-

-

Take up of provision

-

191

106

30

Unwinding of discount rate (provisions)

-

3

-

4

Utilisation of provisions

-

-14

-

-

Total Oil and Gas Authority

-

166

106

34

Total Managing our energy legacy safely and responsibly (ALB) net

-65,835

1,906,630

2,025

1,507,140

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