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The main supply estimates (HC139) have been presented to the House of Commons today (17 July 2024). The government seeks parliamentary authority for central government departmental expenditure for 2024-25, and for the voted element of spending plans originally set out in Spending Review 2021 and updated at subsequent fiscal events.

Estimates are presented on a budgetary basis, the means by which the Treasury monitors and controls departmental spending. They include non-cash items, such as depreciation, which are excluded from the main spending totals used to present departments resource settlements.