Jack Dromey – 2015 Parliamentary Question to the Home Office

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Jack Dromey on 2015-11-06.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, what (a) the amount of any underspend expected against departmental expenditure limits in the current fiscal year and (b) her Department’s latest forecast of total AME spend for this year are; and what the forecasts were for those two sums at the time of the Summer Budget 2015 and March Budget 2015.

Karen Bradley

(a) At the close of September 2015, we were not forecasting an underspend of Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (RDEL)

At the close of September 2015, we were not forecasting an underspend of Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (CDEL)

(b) At the close of September 2015, we were forecasting a total Annual Managed Expenditure (AME) spend for 2015-16 of £1,616 million.

At the time of the Summer Budget 2015 – when we had closed the accounts for June – we were forecasting:

• £9,805 million RDEL for the whole of 2015-16

• £363 million CDEL for the whole of 2015-16

• £1,618 million AME for the whole of 2015-16

At the time of the Spring Budget we were forecasting:

• £9,805 million RDEL for the whole of 2015-16

• £363 million CDEL for the whole of 2015-16

• £1,616 million AME for the whole of 2015-16