Block Grant: Scotland

(asked on 15th March 2016) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the effect will be on the Scottish Government's block grant of the recent announcement of funding for Crossrail 2 for London and High Speed 3 for England.


Answered by
Greg Hands Portrait
Greg Hands
Minister of State (Department for Business and Trade)
This question was answered on 21st March 2016

The Barnett Formula was applied in the usual way to the Department for Transport’s budget at Spending Review 2015, and will continue to be applied as set out in the Statement of Funding Policy at future Spending Reviews and other fiscal events.

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