<P> A Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) Bill is brought in and passed at the end of the parliamentary year before the Summer recess . When passed, this is known as the Appropriation Act, and allocates the monies from the Consolidated Fund to the purposes set out in the main annual departmental expenditure estimates (the annual government department budgets, known as Estimates). </P> <P> In the interim period between the start of the financial year and the passing of the Appropriation Act, a process known as Votes on Account is used to grant to departments up to 45% of the amounts they were allocated in the preceding financial year . These Votes on Account, and any necessary changes to departmental budgets (Supplementary Estimates) are passed as Consolidated Fund Acts, normally twice each year in November and February . Additional funds may be requested at any time, and will either require an additional Consolidated Fund Act, or will be included within other legislation . </P> <P> The preamble of these supply acts is different from that of most other Acts of Parliament . It currently reads: </P> <P> Whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled have resolved to authorise the use of resources and the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply which they have granted to Her Majesty in this Session of Parliament:--</P>

In the estimation of expenditure charged on the consolidated fund of india the parliament has