Transport written question – answered at on 5 March 2014.
Michael Connarty
Labour, Linlithgow and East Falkirk
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport how much was paid to Scotland under the Barnett formula as a consequence of his Department's expenditure on (a) roads and (b) railways in each of the last three years for which information is available.
Stephen Hammond
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The Barnett formula is applied to the changes in departmental budgets as a whole rather than to individual components of a budget. It is therefore not possible to attribute Barnett consequentials to particular programmes of a departmental budget. Full details of the Barnett formula are set out in the Treasury publication “Funding the Scottish Parliament National Assembly for Wales and Northern Ireland Assembly: Statement of Funding Policy”.
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Secretary of State was originally the title given to the two officials who conducted the Royal Correspondence under Elizabeth I. Now it is the title held by some of the more important Government Ministers, for example the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs.
An economic mechanism used by the Treasury to adjust automatically the amounts of public expenditure allocated to Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales, to reflect changes in spending levels allocated to public services in England, England and Wales or Great Britain as a whole.
