Public Expenditure

(asked on 30th August 2024) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, pursuant to the Answer of 25 July 2024 to Question 1813 on Public Expenditure, what the overspend was in each Departmental budget at the end of (a) July and (b) August 2024.


Answered by
Darren Jones Portrait
Darren Jones
Chief Secretary to the Treasury
This question was answered on 4th September 2024

On 29th July, the Chancellor set out the £21.9bn pressure on departmental budgets in the 2024-25 financial year. This announcement was accompanied by the document ‘Fixing the Foundations’. The Chancellor is running a Spending Review and will publish a full breakdown of departmental settlements at Budget in October.

Reticulating Splines