Released on 19 April 2004:
Supplementary Budgetary Information 2004-05
Main Estimates 2004-05
Under long-established constitutional practice it is for the Crown (the Government) to demand money, the House of Commons to grant it and the House of Lords to assent to the Grant. Estimates are the means of obtaining from Parliament the legal authority to consume the resources and spend the cash the Government needs to finance department's agreed spending programmes for the financial year (April to March).
Parliament gives statutory authority for both the consumption of resources and for cash to be drawn from the Consolidated Fund (the Government's general bank account at the Bank of England) by Acts of Parliament known as Consolidated Fund Acts and by an annual Appropriation Act. This process is known as "Supply procedure". The Main Estimates start the supply procedure and are presented by the Treasury around the start of the financial year to which they relate. The Treasury presents alongside the Main Estimates a set of Supplementary Budgetary Information tables reconciling the Estimates to departmental report tables. At various points in the year the Treasury presents revised and/or Supplementary Estimates asking Parliament for approval for any necessary additional resources and/or cash or revisions to the Main Estimates.
After the end of the financial year (around July) the Treasury presents the Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper to Parliament, providing provisional outturn figures for public expenditure by departments.
Please note some of the Associated Documents available below in Adobe Acrobat Portable Document Format (PDF) are quite large and may therefore take some time to download. If you do not have Adobe Acrobat installed on your computer you can download the software free of charge from the Adobe website.
PDF file of the Vote on Account 2004-05 (58.4kb)
PDF file of the Vote on Account 2003-04 (104kb)
PDF file of the Spring Supplementary Estimates 2003-04
PDF file of the Spring Supplementary Estimates 2002-03
PDF file of the Spring Supplementary Estimates 2000-01
PDF file of the Summer Supplementary Estimates 2001-02
PDF file of the Winter Supplementary Estimates 2003-04
PDF file of the Winter Supplementary Estimates 2002-03
PDF file of the Winter Supplementary Estimates 2001-02
PDF file of the Supply Estimates 2002-2003: Statement of Excesses
PDF file of the Supply Estimates 2001-2002: Statement of Excesses
PDF file of the Supply Estimates 2000-2001: Statement of Excesses
PDF file of the Supplementary Budgetary Information 2003-04 Part 1 (504 kb)
PDF file of the Supplementary Budgetary Information 2003-04 Part 2 (416 kb)
PDF file of the Supplementary Budgetary Information 2003-04 Part 3 (504 kb)
PDF file of the Supplementary Budgetary Information 2003-04 Part 4 (512 kb)
PDF file of the Supplementary Budgetary Information 2002-03
Supplementary Budgetary Information 2004-05
Click on the links below to access HTML versions of Parliamentary Supply Estimates on the Official Documents website.
Main Supply Estimates 2002-03
Supplementary Budgetary Information 2002-03
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