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Attorney General's Office: Departmental Expenditure Limits

Asked by Liam ByrneLabourAttorney GeneralTabled Answered 12 December 2025UIN 97089

The question

To ask the Solicitor General, what her 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 her Department’s programmes; and how much and what

Answered by Ellie Reeves

The Law Officer Departments have a capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) as follows:2025-26 – 0.1b2026-27 – 0.1b2027-28 – 0.1b2028-29 – 0.2b2029-30 – 0.0bFuture years CDEL allocations are subject to planning in the usual way.

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