Public Expenditure
(asked on 21st September 2022) - View Source
Question to the HM Treasury:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the underspend in each financial year in the total budget of Departments was as a percentage of the total Government budget; and what the equivalent figures are for the Scottish DEL for each year for which figures are available since 2010.
Analysis of DEL underspends since 2010 are provided below for total central government (departments and devolved administrations) and for the Scottish government only. Note that these underspends represent the funding that departments return to the Exchequer after accounting for carry forward under Budget Exchange rules (as departmental Budget Exchange carry forward is processed at Supplementary Estimates based on forecasts), whereas the figures for the Scottish Government are before carry forward as this is processed for the devolved administrations using outturn information. The figures are not therefore directly comparable.
Data for this analysis are taken from recent editions of the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses (PESA) command paper using tables in chapter three.
*RDEL | CDEL | ||||
| Total Government Underspend as % final provision | Scottish Government underspend as % final provision | Total Government Underspend as % final provision | Scottish Government underspend as % final provision | |
2010-11 | -1.1% | -0.4% | -2.4% | -0.1% | |
2011-12 | -1.7% | -0.5% | -3.8% | -1.1% | |
2012-13 | -1.6% | -0.6% | -4.4% | -1.0% | |
2013-14 | -0.7% | -0.6% | -2.5% | -1.1% | |
2014-15 | -0.6% | -0.6% | -5.5% | -10.1% | |
2015-16 | -0.3% | -0.3% | -3.2% | -2.5% | |
2016-17 | -0.8% | -0.5% | -3.8% | -2.8% | |
2017-18 | -0.8% | -2.1% | -4.6% | -0.2% | |
2018-19 | -0.9% | -2.1% | -4.3% | -3.5% | |
2019-20 | 0.3% | -1.3% | -3.2% | -2.4% | |
2020-21 | -5.1% | -0.9% | -6.4% | -4.1% | |
2021-22 | -2.9% | -1.9% | -5.6% | -7.5% | |
*For 2010-11 and 2011-12 figures presented are RDEL. From 2012-13 onwards | |||||
presented as RDEL excluding depreciation. | |||||