Question follow-through · 97097
Department for Transport: Departmental Expenditure Limits
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy papers entitled Spending Review 2025, published on 30 June 2025, and Budget 2025, published on 28 November 2025, what their Department’s capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL)
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 4 Dec 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Dec 2025
- Answer
- 18 Dec 2025 · 14 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
4 Dec 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy papers entitled Spending Review 2025, published on 30 June 2025, and Budget 2025, published on 28 November 2025, what their Department’s capital Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL)
8 Dec 2025
Target answer date
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18 Dec 2025
Answer published
The Spending Review 2025 established allocations of Capital Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) up to financial year 2029-30. A profile of these agreed allocations is enclosed in the table below, reflecting the measures announced at Autumn Budget 2025: ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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