The Government will seek to ensure that towns in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland can benefit from this funding and we will announce further details in due course.

The Barnett Formula will be applied in the normal way to departmental DEL totals at the 2019 Spending Review.

This grant scheme launched on 5 April 2019, and will be available to village halls in England. The Barnett Formula will be applied to funding in the normal way.

Some 55% of Scots pay lower income tax than they would pay if they lived in England. Does the Chancellor not agree that he should take inspiration from the SNP’s progressive Finance Minister by protecting public services and the poorest, rather than the better-off?

As previously set out, HM Treasury and IPA do not centrally hold a complete set of funding allocations and cost data for individual capital projects, whether funded by central government or by the Devolved Administrations, or jointly. By the same token, HM Treasury and IPA do not have data on what proportion of funding for projects in the Devolved Administrations comes from central government and DAs’ own capital budgets. However, HM Treasury and IPA do publish aggregate capital spending allocations for departments and the Devolved Administrations, as well as more granular detail on infrastructure investment, for example in the recent Interim Response to the National Infrastructure Assessment at Budget 2018 and the National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline in November 2018.

Aggregate capital spending allocations to departments and the Devolved Administrations in past years are published in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2018 (p.26). Further regional breakdowns of capital spending by economic category, including for the Devolved Administrations, are published in Chapter 9 of the same document.

Aggregate capital spending allocations for future years to 2020-21 are published in the Budget 2018 document (p.23). The Government will set capital budgets beyond 2020-21 at the Spending Review. The Government will also publish further, more detailed information on infrastructure in the full response to the National Infrastructure Assessment later this year.

As previously set out, HM Treasury and IPA do not centrally hold a complete set of funding allocations and cost data for individual capital projects, whether funded by central government or by the Devolved Administrations, or jointly. By the same token, HM Treasury and IPA do not have data on what proportion of funding for projects in the Devolved Administrations comes from central government and DAs’ own capital budgets. However, HM Treasury and IPA do publish aggregate capital spending allocations for departments and the Devolved Administrations, as well as more granular detail on infrastructure investment, for example in the recent Interim Response to the National Infrastructure Assessment at Budget 2018 and the National Infrastructure and Construction Pipeline in November 2018.

Aggregate capital spending allocations to departments and the Devolved Administrations in past years are published in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2018 (p.26). Further regional breakdowns of capital spending by economic category, including for the Devolved Administrations, are published in Chapter 9 of the same document.

Aggregate capital spending allocations for future years to 2020-21 are published in the Budget 2018 document (p.23). The Government will set capital budgets beyond 2020-21 at the Spending Review. The Government will also publish further, more detailed information on infrastructure in the full response to the National Infrastructure Assessment later this year.

HM Treasury does not centrally hold information on all individual capital projects approved in (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Wales and (c) Scotland.

Capital projects in the Devolved Administrations are not funded through a single mechanism, nor is there a single decision-making body. In devolved policy areas funding comes from either i) central government, as in the case of the Belfast City Regional Deal at Autumn Budget 2018; or ii) from Devolved Administrations’ own capital budgets, which are set per the Barnett formula. Projects in reserved policy areas, such as Defence, are funded through central government. Because there is no central funding source or decision-making body, we do not hold a complete record of individual capital projects approved in (a) Northern Ireland, (b) Wales and (c) Scotland in (i) 2017, (ii) 2018 and (iii) 2019.

The Government is making additional funding available so that departments and the devolved administrations can prepare effectively for EU Exit. More than £4.2 billion has been provided since 2016, including over £2 billion for core Brexit activity in 2019-20 for deal and no deal scenarios.

The 2019-20 allocations were announced in a Written Ministerial Statement on 18 December 2018. The devolved administrations received their full share of additional funding in devolved areas through the Barnett Formula, with the Scottish Government allocated £54.7m, the Welsh Government allocated £31.1m, and the Northern Ireland administration allocated £20.4m. The Police Service Northern Ireland has received a further £16.5m to reflect the specific and unique circumstances in Northern Ireland.

This follows 2018-19 Barnett-based allocations from a £1.5 billion fund, which provided the Scottish Government with £37.3m, the Welsh Government with £21.4m, and the Northern Ireland administration with £15.2m.

UK Government departments have not been set budgets beyond the current Spending Review period. The Barnett Formula will be applied in the normal way at the next Spending Review to the additional allocations to the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government.

London & Continental Railways was responsible for the construction of High Speed 1 and the Channel Tunnel. This was an international project and for the benefit of the United Kingdom as a whole. High Speed 2 is a domestic project and rail infrastructure is devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The Statement of Funding Policy will be reviewed and updated as part of the next Spending Review. Since the 2015 edition, funding arrangements to reflect powers devolved through the Scotland Act 2016 and Wales Act 2017 have been separately updated in the Scottish and Welsh Governments’ respective Fiscal Frameworks.

A full breakdown of how the £1.5bn for 2018/19 was allocated can be found in my Written Ministerial Statement, HCWS540, laid on the 13th March (https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-statement/Commons/2018-03-13/HCWS540/). This includes £73.9 million for Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland due to Barnett consequentials. This money will be paid out in Supplementary Estimates 18/19 later this financial year. Departments will be invited to bid for 2019/20 EU Exit preparation funding later in the year. Details of timings and process will be set out in due course.

HM Treasury does not provide funding to local authorities directly. Local authorities receive funding through MHCLG or from departments when their policy imposes costs on the local authority.

The National Productivity Investment Fund (NPIF) was established to provide £31 billion of additional capital spending to areas critical for improving productivity – transport, digital infrastructure, housing and R&D. Where responsibility for these policy areas sits with the devolved administrations, such as housing and roads, they have received increases in their capital budgets as a result of the application of the Barnett formula to changes in spending in England. The devolved administrations have full control over how they allocate this funding.

The UK Government is also investing UK-wide in sectors where it has responsibility, including research and development funding, and investment in digital infrastructure.

Under the implementation period included within the draft Withdrawal Agreement, the UK will continue to participate in 2014-2020 EU programmes until they close.

In the longer-term, the funding choices we take will be based on the UK’s domestic priorities and will be affected by the economic environment, the fiscal position and the outcome negotiated with the EU.

The UK Government and devolved administrations are discussing EU exit through the Joint Ministerial Committee (EU Negotiations) and the Ministerial Forum (EU Negotiations).

I also discuss funding matters with the devolved administration finance ministers on a regular basis, both bilaterally and through the Finance Ministers’ Quadrilateral.

The Soft Drinks Industry Levy applies across England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. In England, the new levy revenue will be invested in giving school-aged children a brighter and healthier future. The Barnett formula will apply to this spending in the normal way, and it will be for the Devolved Administrations to choose how they allocate this funding.

As a result of funding allocated for these purposes to the Department for Education at Budget 2016,

• In 2016/17 the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and a Northern Ireland Executive will receive £0.3m, £0.2m and £0.1m respectively.

• In 2017/18, the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and a Northern Ireland Executive will receive £16.4m, £9.5m and £5.5m respectively.

• In 2018/19, the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and a Northern Ireland Executive will receive £36.7m, £21.2m and £12.3m respectively.

• In 2019/2020, the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and a Northern Ireland Executive will receive £44.8m, £28.9m and £15m respectively.

  Subsequent changes to the levy-funded spending package in England have had no impact on these allocations.

As a result of funding allocated for these purposes to the Department for Education at Budget 2016, the Scottish Government, Welsh Government and a Northern Ireland Executive will receive £36.7m, £21.2m and £12.3m respectively in 2018/19.

Subsequent changes to the levy-funded spending package in England have had no impact on these allocations.

Barnett consequentials for the years covered by the 2015 Spending Review arising from the Telecommunications Infrastructure (Relief from Non-domestic Rates) Bill are set out below.

HM Treasury ministers have discussions with representatives from the devolved administrations on a regular basis on matters of importance to the economies of Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and the UK.

The government has committed to invest almost £1.6 billion in City Deals in Scotland and Wales. Of this, £500m will be invested in the Cardiff City Deal over a 20 year period and £115.6m will be invested in the Swansea City Deal over a 15 year period. The government remains committed to agreeing a North Wales Growth Deal. Further detail on the funding of the Cardiff and Swansea City Deals can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/508268/Cardiff_Capital_Region_City_Deal.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/611685/Swansea_City_Deal_-_English.pdf

The government has committed to invest almost £1.6 billion in City Deals in Scotland and Wales. Of this, £500m will be invested in the Cardiff City Deal over a 20 year period and £115.6m will be invested in the Swansea City Deal over a 15 year period. The government remains committed to agreeing a North Wales Growth Deal. Further detail on the funding of the Cardiff and Swansea City Deals can be found here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/508268/Cardiff_Capital_Region_City_Deal.pdf

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/611685/Swansea_City_Deal_-_English.pdf