Supplementary Estimates 2018-19
The Government published its revised spending plans for 2018-19 on 11 February 2019, in the Supplementary Estimates 2018-19.
The Backbench Business Committee and the Liaison Committee agreed that Estimates Day debates should be held as follows:
Tuesday 26 February:
Following the debates, the House considered Estimates motions, and passed revised spending limits into law through the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipations and adjustments) Act 2019.
Summary of plans
This briefing paper, prepared jointly by the House of Commons Library and the House of Commons Scrutiny Unit, gives more detail of the Government's spending plans, including details for each department.
Scrutiny Unit data visualisations
The House of Commons Scrutiny Unit has produced data visualisations of the 2018-19 revisions to the spending plans contained in the Supplementary Estimates for each major Government department. The visualisations show spending trends, changes to budgets since earlier in the year, and how spending plans break down within the totals. To view these visualisations, click on the relevant link below:
- Overview
- Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
- Cabinet Office
- Defence
- Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Education
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Exiting the European Union
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Health and Social Care
- Home Office
- Housing, Communities and Local Government
- International Development
- 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 are given below.
Major Departments:
- Business, Energy and Industrial strategy
- Defence
- Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
- Education
- Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
- Exiting the European Union
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office
- Health and Social Care
- Home Office
- Housing, Communities and Local Government
- International Development
- International Trade
- Justice
- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Transport
- Treasury
- Wales
- Work & Pensions: (1) Memorandum and (2) Tables
Smaller departments
- Armed Forces Pension
- Charity Commission
- Civil Service Pensions
- Competition and Markets Authority
- Crown Prosecution Service
- Government Actuary's Department
- Judicial Pension Scheme
- National Archives
- National Crime Agency
- National Savings and Investments
- Ofgem
- Ofqual
- Ofsted
- Ofwat
- Parliamentary & Health Service Ombudsman
- Royal Mail Pensions
- Statistics Board
- Supreme Court
- Teachers' Pensions
- Treasury Solicitor
- UKAEA Pension Scheme
- UK Export Finance
Correspondence on 2018-19 Supplementary Estimates
- Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy - From BEIS to Committee
- Defence - from Committee to MoD
- Foreign and Commonwealth Office - From Committee to FCO
- Home Office - From Home Office to Committee
- Housing, Communities and Local Government -
(a) from Committee to MHCLG (b) from MHCLG to Committee - International Development - from DFID to Committee
- Justice - from MoJ to Committee
- Northern Ireland - from Committee to NIO
- Revenue and Customs - from HMRC to Committee
- Transport -
(a) from Committee to DFT (b) from DFT to Committee
Formal documentation
The formal documents which set out these spending plans- the 2018-19 Supplementary Estimates themselves- are here.
The original Spending Review 2015 document on which these spending plans were based is here.