United Kingdom · Question · Written question
UIN 154919
Cost Benefit Analysis
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19 February 2021
Last action
1 March 2021 · Answer
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1 March 2021
Summary
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has recommended changes to the social discount rates that his Department applies; and whether those changes will be applied retrospectively to projects in the Government's Major Projects Portfolio.
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19 February 2021
Written question
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he has recommended changes to the social discount rates that his Department applies; and whether those changes will be applied retrospectively to projects in the Government's Major Projects Portfolio.
Source: Commons
1 March 2021
Answer
The Green Book Social Time Preference Rate (STPR) or discount rate is applied by all government departments in the formulation of policy appraisal and has been 3.5% since 2003 following regular independent expert reviews. There are no forthcoming changes ...
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- Official source: https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2021-02-19/154919
- Open data entity: https://questions-statements-api.parliament.uk/api/writtenquestions/questions/1287713
- uk · wq-1287713 · source updated 1 March 2021