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Departmental Expenditure Limits(Office for National Statistics)

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Ruth Kelly): The Office for National Statistics Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be decreased by £764,000 from £128,236,000 to £127,472,000 and the administration costs limit will be decreased by £764,000 from £127,437,000 to £126,673,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the table:

Resources				Capital
Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted
-764,000	127,472,000	123,112,000	4,360,000	NIL	22,063,000	22,063,000	0

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from an increase in Resource DEL due to the draw down of £308,000 from the Invest to Save Budget in respect of the "Citizen Information Project: feasibility study" and due to the draw down of £50,000 from the Evidence-Based Policy Fund towards the costs of the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing. This increase is outweighed by transfers of £1,122,000 in total to other government departments. £537,000 of the transfer is in relation to data development work for the Neighbourhood Statistics programme. The transfers comprise £50,000 to the Department for Transport, £247,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and £240,000 to the Home Office. Furthermore, ONS is repaying to the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit £585,000 administration costs which they advanced to ONS in 2001–02 to finance initial work on the Neighbourhood Statistics programme.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Departmental Expenditure

The Secretary of State for International Development (Clare Short): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate the Department for International Development DEL for 2002/2003 will be increased by £77,305,000 from £3,376,958,000 to £3,454,263,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the table:

(£'000)

Resources				Capital
Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non voted
455,277	3,440,889	2,269,255	1,171,634	-377,972	13,374	13,374	—

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:

RfR 1: Eliminating Poverty in Poorer Countries

a transfer of £1,200,000 resource from DEFRA representing a contribution to the environmental know-how fund to Bilateral Development Assistance resource;

to give effect to the take up of DEL end year flexibility of £52,458,000 resource (non-discretionary—EC Attribution rollover) on programme expenditure to Bilateral Development Assistance resource;

a transfer of £988,000 from Multilateral Capital to Bilateral Development Assistance resource;

a transfer of £19,000,000 from non-voted capital to Bilateral Development Assistance resource;

a transfer of £18,000,000 from non-voted capital to Multilateral Development Assistance resource;

a transfer of £339,984,000 from non-voted Capital to non-voted Resource for the unwinding of Provisions;

to give effect to the transfer of £24,472,000 resource from the Central Reserve as a contribution to HIPC 100% expenditure to Bilateral Development Assistance;

a reduction of £3,600,000 resource to the Bilateral Development Assistance net cash figure to account for the value of VAT receipts taken in 2002/03;

a transfer of £18,000 resource from DFID to the Home Office for the balance of DFID's contribution to GRECO membership;

to give effect to the take up of Administration DEL end year flexibility of £4,893,000 resource (discretionary) on Administration;

a reduction of £955,000 resource to Administration net cash figure to account for the value of VAT receipts taken in 2002/03;

RfR 2: Conflict Prevention

a transfer of £3,588,000 resource from sub-Saharan Africa Conflict Prevention non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) to sub-Saharan Africa Conflict Prevention;

a transfer of £1,945,000 resource from sub-Saharan Africa Conflict Prevention non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) to the Ministry of Defence;

a transfer of £1,450,000 resource from sub-Saharan Africa non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office;

a transfer of £17,000 resource from sub-Saharan Africa non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) to Global Conflict Prevention.

a transfer of £2,250,000 resource from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office to Global Conflict Prevention;

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The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from: transfers from the capital to the resource budget as listed above.

EDUCATION AND SKILLS

Departmental Expenditure

The Secretary of State for Education and Skills (Mr. Charles Clarke): This Written Statement explains the changes being proposed to the Department for Education and Skills' Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) (including the Office for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools (OFSTED) which has a separate Estimate), which subject to Parliamentary approval of

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the necessary Supplementary Estimate, will be increased by £681,049,000 from £23,500,366,000 to £23,984,215,000.

There are no Spring Supplementary changes to the OFSTED Estimate and hence they are excluded from the tables below.

The Administration Costs limits which will be changed as follows:

	Original	Change	Revised
	£000	£000	£000
DfES (RfR1)	207,541	+3,505	211,046
Sure Start (RfR2)	5,450	+1,005	6,455
Children's Fund (RfR3)	4,005	-81	3,924

Within the DEL change, the impact on the resources element and the capital element are as set out in the following table:

	Resources				Capital
	Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non-voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non- voted
	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000	£000
RfR 1	428,439	20,050,932	7,395,624	12,655,308	252,015	3,334,477	1,964,018	1,370,459
RfR 2	771	285,404	285,404	0	0	164,008	164,008	0
RfR 3	-176	149,394	149,394	0	0	0	0	0
Total change	429,034	20,485,730	7,830,422	12,655,308	252,015	3,498,485	2,128,026	1,370,459

The £182,716,000 increase in the voted element of the resource DEL for RfR1 arises from the take up of £196,480,000 of End Year Flexibility (EYF) provision; the net transfer from the Home Office of £2,759,000 for Education in Prisons, for Adult Learning, for the Community Champions and for shared premises; the net transfer from the Department for Work and Pensions of £481,000 for Employment Service contribution to shared premises for facility management in Caxton House, for support of Detached National Experts and for Machinery of Government changes adjustment; the transfer from the Department of Health of £33,000 for Education Advisors; from Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of £240,000 for Local Public Service Agreement and from the National Assembly for Wales of £187,000 for the International Education Programme and for Students on Dance & Drama Schemes; the transfer to the Department of Environment Food & Rural Affairs of £500,000 for the school milk subsidy scheme; the net virement of £17,017,000 to non-voted DEL (£22,720,000) for the establishment of the Sector Skills Development Agency (SSDA); (£797,000) for the Student Loans Company Grant in Aid and (£6,500,000) to voted expenditure for the modernisation of Student Support and the take up of Evidence Based Policy Funding of £53,000 for Child Outcome and Parental Characteristics research.

The £3,505,000 increase in the Administration Costs limit for RfR1 arises from the net reclassification virement of £7,826,000 from administration to programme expenditure; transfers of £1,331,000 from the Department for Work and Pensions (£890,000) for the Employment Service contribution for shared premises and for support of Detached National Experts, from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of (£240,000) and from the Home Office (£201,000) for shared premises, and the take up of £10,000,000 from the End-Year Flexibility provision.

The £771,000 increase in the voted element of resource DEL for RfR2 arises from the take up of EYF of £714,000 and the transfer of £57,000 from the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) towards the administrative costs of the Childcare Policy team.

The £1,005,000 increase in the Administration Costs limit for RfR2 arises from the take up of EYF of £714,000, virement from current grants of £234,000 and the DWP transfer of £57,000.

The reduction in the voted element of resource DEL for RfR3 arises from the transfer of £176,000 (£81,000 is from administration costs) to the Home Office for work associated with the Strategy Programme.

The £200,015,000 increase in the voted element of the Capital DEL for RfR1 arises from the take up of £200,697,000 from EYF for schools and Other Educational Institutions capital projects (of which £88,823,000 is from the Capital Modernisation Fund element of EYF) and the offset of additional former Grant Maintained School loan repayments of £682,000.

The £245,723,000 increase in the non-voted element of the resource DEL for RfR1 arises from take up of £229,638,000 of End Year Flexibility provision for funding the Learning and Skills Council (£196,732,000), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (£30,000,000), the Student Loans Company (SLC) (£1,132,000) and the General Teaching Council (£1,774,000); from virements of £22,720,000 for the set-up of the SSDA, the virement of £6,500,000 to resource DEL for the modernisation of Student Support and the virement of £797,000 for SLC and transfers to the Department of Transport of £1,100,000 for the

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Merchant Navy training Scheme, transfer of £300,000 to the Department of Health for the Clinical Scientist Scheme and the transfer from the DWP of £468,000 to pay for Adult Learning Inspectorate inspection of training providers used by JobcentrePlus .

The £52,000,000 increase in the non-voted element of the capital DEL for RfR1 arises from the draw down of £51,000,000 from EYF provision for the Learning Skills Council (£40,500,000), for Teachers Training Agency (£6,500,000) and HEFCE (£4,000,000) and the transfer of £1,000,000 from the Department of Health for the Research Capacity Development programme.

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