Public Sector Debt: Voluntary Contributions
The question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how much was received in the Donations and Bequest Account established by the National Debt Reduction Act 1823 and what the largest individual donation amount was.
Answered by Dan Tomlinson
From 2003-04 – the first full financial year following the integration of the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt (CRND) into the UK Debt Management Office (DMO) – to 2025-26, donations made to the Donations and Bequests Account total £595,211,093. The largest individual cashflow of £585,000,000, received in August 2024, followed a significant transfer from the National Fund – a charity whose intended purpose is to pay off the national debt of the United Kingdom
Additional information on donations made in previous financial years to the Donations and Bequests Account can be found on the DMO’s website here: Publications
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