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Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2020

Consolidated Text As Enacted Cited authorities 9 Cited in Amendments 1 Related
JurisdictionUK Non-devolved
Citation2020 c. 4
Year2020
(1) The use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2021 is authorised up to the amount of £298,028,070,000.£255,878,997,000 is authorised for use for current purposes, and£42,149,073,000 is authorised for use for capital purposes.issue money out of the Consolidated Fund, andapply it in the year ending with 31 March 2021 for expenditure authorised by Parliament,(1) The amount up to which authorisation was conferred for the use of resources for the year ending with 31 March 2020 is to be treated as further increased by £116,948,867,000.the amount up to which there is authorisation for use for current purposes is to be treated as further increased by £113,468,618,000, andthe amount up to which there is authorisation for use for capital purposes is to be treated as further increased by £3,480,249,000.to issue money out of the Consolidated Fund, andto apply it in the year ending with 31 March 2020 for expenditure authorised by Parliament,(4) The increases for which this section provides are to be treated as having had effect from the beginning of 1 April 2019.appropriating the amount of resources the use of which for the year ending with 31 March 2020 is authorised by section 2(1) , andappropriating the amount of money the issue of which out of the Consolidated Fund is authorised by section 2(3) ,(2) The Schedule specifies the amounts by which adjustments are to be treated as made to the amounts originally specified in the Scheduled Estimates in the Main Estimates Act 2019.a negative adjustment has effect to reduce an amount of authorised expenditure and, where applied to an estimated surplus (which is expressed as if it were itself a negative amount) , increases the amount of the surplus, anda positive adjustment has effect to increase an amount of authorised expenditure and, where applied to an estimated surplus, reduces it.where an adjustment by a negative amount of more than the amount itself is made to an amount of authorised expenditure, what results is an estimated surplus, andwhere an adjustment by a positive amount of more than the amount itself is made to the amount of an estimated surplus, what results is an amount of authorised expenditure.(5) Where, in the Schedule, a description of matters to which expenditure may relate or from which income may arise (“description A”) differs from the description contained in the corresponding part of the Scheduled Estimates in the Schedule to the Main Estimates Act 2019 (“description B”) , the Schedule to this Act has effect for adjusting that corresponding part by substituting description A for description B.(6) Where, in relation to a department, other person or service to which a Scheduled Estimate in the Schedule to the Main Estimates Act 2019 relates, the Schedule to this Act contains a new description of matters to which expenditure may relate or from which income may arise, the Schedule to this Act has effect for adjusting that Scheduled Estimate by treating the new description as included in it.(7) In this section—(8) The adjustments made by virtue of this section are to be treated as having had effect from the beginning of 1 April 2019.
  • This Act may be cited as the Supply and Appropriation (Anticipation and Adjustments) Act 2020.
    • (1) In this Schedule, where an asterisk(*) appears in any description of matters to which expenditure may relate, or from which income may arise, the text from the asterisk to the end of the description does not appear in the corresponding part of the Scheduled Estimates in the Schedule to the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Act 2019; and where an asterisk(*) appears at the beginning of such a description, the description concerned is a new description.Ministry of Defence Ministry of Defence, 2019-20
    Estimate Net resources authorised for current purposes Net resources authorised for capital purposes Net Cash Requirement
    (£) (£) (£)
    Ministry of Defence
    Departmental Expenditure Limit -782,603,000 573,251,000
    Annually Managed Expenditure 200,000,000 0
    Non-budget Expenditure 0
    Net Cash Requirement 1,235,648,000
    Total -582,603,000 573,251,000 1,235,648,000
    Departmental Expenditure LimitExpenditure arising from:
    • Ongoing military commitments, including identifying and countering the threat of terrorist attack on the UK Mainland, and maintaining the integrity of UK waters and airspace. Contributing to the community, including through the administration of cadet forces, costs of assistance to other Government Departments and agencies. Defence engagement, and the department's support of wider British interests. Delivering military capability, including costs of front line troops, attributed costs of logistical and personnel support costs. Research on the equipment and non-equipment programme, provision of financial interventions to the private sector in support of delivery of departmental outputs. The Defence Infrastructure Organisation. To support Ministers and Parliament. Strategic management and corporate services. Pensions and other payments/allowances for disablement or death arising out of war or service in the Armed Forces after 2 September 1939. Awards to surviving members of British groups held prisoner by the Japanese during the Second World War (Far Eastern Prisoners of War) or their surviving spouse and pensions and other payments in respect of service in the Armed Forces at other times, excluding claims under the Armed Forces Compensation Scheme and Armed Forces pension scheme.
    • Personnel costs of the Armed Forces and their Reserves, Cadet forces, and personnel costs of Defence Ministers, and of civilian staff employed by the Ministry of Defence. Movements; charter of ships; logistic services for the Armed Forces; repair, maintenance, stores and supply services; associated capital facilities and works; contractors' redundancy costs; plant and machinery; nuclear warhead and fissile material programme; procurement, including development and production of equipment and weapon systems for the Armed Forces; purchases for sale abroad; research by contract; sundry procurement services including those on repayment terms.
    • Land and buildings works services. Services provided by other Government Departments. Sundry services, subscriptions, grants, including support to Armed Forces charities and other payments, assistance to Foreign and Commonwealth Governments for defence-related purposes. UK youth community projects. Set-up costs and loans to Trading Funds and Defence Electronics and Components Agency. Spending by defence-related Arm's Length Bodies (ALBs) .
    • Support of operations over and above the costs of maintaining the units involved at their normal state of readiness. The net additional (programme) costs for early warning, crisis management, conflict resolution/peace-making, peace-keeping and peace-building activities in other parts of the World. The net additional costs of associated strengthening of international regional systems; capacity-building; and stabilisation activities. * Delivery of agreed goods.
    • Personnel costs of the Armed Forces and their Reserves includes provision for Regular Naval and Marine Services to a number not exceeding 37,200; provision for the Regular Army Service to a number not exceeding 106,880; provision for Regular Air...

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