Public Sector Debt: Gifts and Endowments
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, (a) how many and (b) what value of (i) donations and (ii) bequests have been made to the Donations and Bequests Account since 4 July 2024.
Answered by Emma Reynolds
The UK Debt Management Office (DMO) manages the Donations and Bequests Account. It has, as of 18 June 2025, received 14 donations, totalling £585 million, since 4 July 2024.
Over the same period, the DMO received fewer than five bequests, totalling £101,740.83.
We withhold the total number of bequests when fewer than five, because the information could be used to identify individual bequests.
The Donations and Bequests Account falls under the CRND (Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt), for which the DMO publishes annual accounts. The 2024-25 accounts have not yet been published but the 2023-24 figures can be found here: crndrep2024.pdf
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