Speeches

Douglas Chapman – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Douglas Chapman on 2016-03-15.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what the effect will be on the Scottish Government’s block grant of the recent announcement of funding for Crossrail 2 for London and High Speed 3 for England.

Greg Hands

The Barnett Formula was applied in the usual way to the Department for Transport’s budget at Spending Review 2015, and will continue to be applied as set out in the Statement of Funding Policy at future Spending Reviews and other fiscal events.