Recommendation 20

The Department’s Statement of Outturn against Parliamentary Supply highlights a total excess of £208,487,000 for its annually managed expenditure. This is because it is made up of two components, Voted and Non–Voted. The Voted limit was £950,594,000 with an outturn of £1,169,995,000, leading to an excess of £219,401,000. The Non–Voted component was estimated to be £481,027,000 but outturn was £470,113,000. Taking both components together, there was a net excess of £208,487,000.