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Cabinet Office: Departmental Expenditure Limits

Asked by Mike WoodConservativeCabinet OfficeTabled Answered 27 November 2025UIN 92597

The question

To ask the Minister for the Cabinet Office, with reference to page 16 of the Cabinet Office Annual report and accounts 2024-2025, HC1372, 23 October 2025, what proportion of the underspend in Departmental Expenditure Limit spending has been (a) returned t

Answered by Chris Ward

At the end of the financial year, all underspends are returned to the Consolidated Fund. The Cabinet Office did not re-profile any spending into 2025-26 from 2024-25.

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