🧾 Supplementary Estimate 2024–25
Commons Chamber
Parliament approved significant budget adjustments for 2024-25, including increased funding for health, foreign affairs, and business sectors. Military personnel limits for the Navy, Army, and Air Force were set for 2025-26. Excess expenditures from the previous year were also authorized. A new bill was introduced to manage these financial allocations across multiple fiscal years.
Summary
- Department of Health and Social Care:
- Approved an additional £7,956,143,000 for daily operational expenses.
- Reduced capital spending by £1,140,958,000.
- Granted an additional £6,827,154,000 for expenditure from the national treasury.
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office:
- Allocated an extra £592,196,000 for operational costs.
- Added £439,129,000 for long-term investments.
- Approved a total of £862,823,000 to be spent from the national treasury.
- Department for Business and Trade:
- Authorized an additional £952,875,000 for running costs.
- Approved an extra £1,035,833,000 for investments.
- Reduced the budget allocated from the national treasury by £2,037,739,000.
- Military Personnel Estimates for 2025–26:
- Navy: Up to 39,850 service members will be maintained.
- Army: Up to 97,940 service members will be maintained.
- Air Force: Up to 35,800 service members will be maintained.
- Reserve forces for all branches will be authorized up to set limits.
- Excess Expenditure for 2023–24:
- An additional £219,401,000 approved for previously overspent operational costs.
- An extra £2,417,000 approved for overspent capital investments.
- Supplementary Estimates for 2024–25:
- An additional £99,602,165,000 approved for operational costs.
- Capital spending reduced by £25,436,251,000.
- Budget from the national treasury reduced by £1,683,639,000.
- Estimates for 2025–26 (Vote on Account):
- Up to £402,046,708,000 authorized for operational expenses.
- Up to £92,524,444,000 authorized for capital investments.
- A total of £409,837,337,000 granted from the national treasury.
- Supply and Appropriation Bill:
- A new bill was introduced to manage budgets for the years ending March 2024, 2025, and 2026, and to allocate funds from the national treasury accordingly.
Divisiveness
The parliamentary session transcript provided shows a sequence of resolutions being passed without any recorded debate or disagreement. Each resolution is presented as ‘Resolved’, indicating unanimous or near-unanimous agreement among the members present. Key points supporting this assessment include:
- Unanimous Resolutions: All items from the Department of Health and Social Care, Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, Department for Business and Trade, and other estimates are resolved without any recorded opposition or debate.
- Lack of Recorded Debate: The transcript does not include any instances of members questioning, opposing, or debating the resolutions, which typically would indicate disagreement.
- Procedural Continuity: The Deputy Speaker puts the questions on the outstanding estimates together, as per standing orders, again without any recorded interruption or objection.
- Bill Introduction: The Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Bill is presented and read the First time without any mentioned objections or debates, reinforcing the absence of disagreement.
Given these observations, the session appears to have been conducted smoothly with members in agreement on the matters at hand, warranting a low disagreement rating of 1.