Northern Ireland Office: Departmental Expenditure Limits

(asked on 4th December 2025) - View Source

Question to the Northern Ireland Office:

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, with reference to the policy papers entitled Spending Review 2025, published on 30 June 2025, and Budget 2025, published on 28 November 2025, what their Department’s capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be in each year of the Spending Review period; how much capital funding has been allocated to each of their Department’s programmes; and how much and what proportion of the capital DEL allocation remains unallocated in each year.


Answered by
Hilary Benn Portrait
Hilary Benn
Secretary of State for Northern Ireland
This question was answered on 12th December 2025

The Northern Ireland Office’s Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) settlements for the Spending Review period are set out below. Regarding the unallocated portion of the budget; currently, we have no unallocated CDEL in each year of the Spending Review period.

Programme Group

2025-26

2026-27

2027-28

2028-29

2029-30

NIO

£0.623m

£2.043m

£0.178m

£0.193m

£2.393m

ALB

£0.523m

£0.868m

£0.108m

£0.108m

£0.108m

ICRIR

£1.669m

£7.881m

£0.100m

£0.100m

£0.100m

Total Capital DEL

£2.815m

£10.792m

£0.386m

£0.401m

£2.601m

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