Main Estimates 2021-22
The Government published its initial spending plans for 2021-22 on 13 May 2021, in the Main Estimates 2021-22.
The Backbench Business Committee has selected the following Estimates for debate.
Tuesday 29 June 2021
- The spending of the Department for Education on measures to support education recovery - debate pack and link to the debate in Hansard
- The spending of the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government on building safety - debate pack and link to the debate in Hansard
Wednesday 30 June 2021
- The spending of the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office on Overseas Development Assistance; and on the British Council - debate pack and link to the debate in Hansard
Find out more
- Read the briefing paper
- View the interactive budget chart
- Learn more from the Scrutiny Unit’s data visualisations
- Overview
- Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
- Cabinet Office
- Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Defence
- Education
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office
- Health and Social Care
- Home Office
- Housing, Communities and Local Government
- International Trade
- Justice
- Northern Ireland
- Revenue and Customs
- Scotland
- Transport
- Treasury
- Wales
- Work and Pensions
Government Departments' Estimates memoranda
Government departments are required to produce an Estimates memorandum for the relevant select committee to explain what is proposed in their Main Estimate and how proposals compare to past spending plans. Select Committees publish these memoranda on their webpages- for ease of reference links to those published so far are given below.
- Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy: memorandum
- Cabinet Office: memorandum
- Defence: memorandum
- Digital, Culture, Media and Sport: memorandum & tables
- Education: memorandum
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: memorandum
- Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office: memorandum and tables
- Health and Social Care: memorandum
- HM Revenue and Customs: memorandum
- Home Office: memorandum
- Housing, Communities and Local Government: memorandum and tables (1) and (2)
- International Trade: memorandum
- Justice: memorandum
- Northern Ireland: memorandum
- Scotland: memorandum and tables
- Transport: memorandum
- Treasury: memorandum and tables
- Wales: memorandum and tables
- Work and Pensions: memorandum
Smaller departments and pension funds' memoranda are below
- Armed Forces Pension: memorandum
- Charity Commission: memorandum not yet published
- Civil Service Pensions: memorandum
- Competition and Markets Authority: memorandum
- Crown Prosecution Service: memorandum
- Food Standards Agency: memorandum not yet published
- Government Actuary's Department: memorandum
- HM Land Registry: memorandum
- Judicial Pension Scheme: memorandum
- National Archives: memorandum
- National Crime Agency: memorandum
- National Savings and Investments: memorandum
- Ofgem: memorandum not yet published
- Ofqual: memorandum
- Office of Rail and Road: memorandum not yet published
- Ofsted: memorandum
- Ofwat: memorandum
- Overseas staff pensions: memorandum not yet published
- Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman: memorandum
- Royal Mail Pensions: memorandum
- Serious Fraud Office: memorandum
- Statistics Board: memorandum
- Teachers' Pensions: memorandum
- Treasury Solicitor: memorandum
- UKAEA Pension Scheme: memorandum
- UK Export Finance: memorandum
- UK Supreme Court: memorandum not yet published
Formal documentation
The formal documents which set out these spending plans- the 2021-22 Main Estimates themselves can be accessed here
The original Spending Review 2020 document on which these plans are based is here.