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CABINET OFFICE

Departmental Expenditure

The Minister of State, Cabinet Office (Mr. Douglas Alexander): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Cabinet Office DEL will be increased by £ 16,549,000 from £261,159,000 to £277,708,000, the gross administration costs limit will be increased by £4,514,000 from £164,613,000 to £169,127,000 and the net administration costs limit will be decreased by £1,847,000 from £2,922,000 to £ 1,075,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the table:

	Resources£000	Capital£000
Change	2,122	14,427
New DEL	208,566	69,142
Of which:
Voted	208,566	69,142
Non voted

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from Machinery of Government transfers of £2,018,000 to other departments; a virement from capital of £4,000,000; additions from the Invest to Save Budget of £280,000; and net transfers to other government departments of £140,000.

The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from additions from the DEL reserve of £9,000,000; transfers from other departments of £6,087,000; a transfer to the Security and Intelligence Agencies of £385,000; draw down of capital end year flexibility of £4,125,000; virement to resource of £4,000,000; and the difference of £400,000 between expenditure using proceeds from the sale of assets and the net book value of the assets.

NORTHERN IRELAND

Departmental Expenditure

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Paul Murphy): Subject to Parliamentary approval the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) will be taking a 2002/2003 Spring Supplementary Estimate. The effect this will have is to increase the NIO's DEL by £35,101,000 from £1,211,862,000 to £1,246,963,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £13,269,000 from £154,716,000 to £167,985,000. 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
30,591	1,177,900	1,177,900	0	4,510	69,063	41,575	27,488

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The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from the draw down of £12,000,000 End Year Flexibility, a Reserve Claim for the Bloody Sunday Inquiry of £18,542,000 and net transfers into the Department of £49,000. This amount includes a total of £13,236,000 for administration costs.

The extra resource costs cover a range of areas within the Department such as policing plus security, central administration, political, criminal justice and prisons. The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from the draw down of £5,000,000 End Year Flexibility, and a capital transfer to the Northern Ireland Departments of £490,000.

The extra capital costs cover a range of areas within the Department such as policing plus security, central administration, political, criminal justice and prisons.

The NIO Spring Supplementary Estimates will also be used to increase the Grant payable into the Northern Ireland Consolidated Fund by £372,000,000, from £8,089,000,000 to £8,461,000,000.

The increase in Grant payable is a cash increase to fund activities undertaken by Northern Ireland Departments during 2002/03. This cash increase allows

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the use of End Year Flexibility and net transfers to Northern Ireland Departments which will be utilised in delivering departmental programmes.

As a result the Northern Ireland Departments' DEL increases by £338,824,000 from £6,130,919,000 to £6,469,743,000. The increase comprises a take up of EYF of £337,440,000, a claim on the Reserve of £1,326,000 in respect of the disposal of fridges under EU regulations and net transfers of £58,000 from other Government Departments.

LORD CHANCELLOR

Departmental Expenditure

The Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department (Ms Rosie Winterton): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimates, the Lord Chancellor's Departments (including Northern Ireland Court Service and Public Records Office) DEL will be increased by £419,953,000 from £2,897,414,000 to £3,317,367,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £160,001,000 from £639,888,000 to £799,889,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the table:

All figures are £000's.

	Resources				Capital
	Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted
TOTAL	411036	3206627	2946067	260560	8917	110740	99348	11392

The change in the Lord Chancellor's Department resource DEL is the net effect of:

A transfer of £27,000 administration costs and £11,760,000 appropriations in aid to the Home Office; a transfer of £110,000 administration costs from the Home Office; a transfer of £208,000 administration costs to the Department for Work and Pensions; a transfer of £48,000 administration costs from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister; an increase of £11,760,000 appropriations in aid from a short surrender of CFERS; a transfer of £70,000 resources from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs; a reclassification of £444,000 from capital to resource DEL utilising the 2 ½ per cent. capital to resource allowance; a transfer of £78,000 administration costs from the Office of Government Commerce; reclassification of £6,245,000 resources from resource to capital DEL, of which £7,000,000 is administration costs; take up of £412,000,000 resources from the DEL Reserve, of which £167,000,000 is administration costs.

The change in the Northern Ireland Court Service resource DEL is the net effect of:

take up of DEL end year flexibility of £1,581,000 administration costs and a virement of £1,581,000 from administration to capital DEL; a reclassification of £26,600,000 from administration costs to programme costs; take up of non-voted DEL end year flexibility of £271,000 Consolidated Fund expenditure; the take up of DEL end year flexibility of £1,955,000 on legal aid fund expenditure.

The change in the Public Records Office resource DEL arises from:

the take up of £2,542,000 administration costs from end year flexibility.

The change in the Lord Chancellor's Department capital DEL is the net effect of:

a reclassification of £444,000 from capital to resource DEL utilising the 2 ½ per cent. capital to resource allowance; reclassification of £6,245,000 resources from resource to capital DEL.

The change in the Northern Ireland Court Service capital DEL is the net effect of:

the take up of capital end year flexibility of £1,475,000; and a virement of £1,581,000 from administration to capital DEL.

The change in the Public Records Office capital DEL is the net effect of:

take up of end year flexibility of £60,000 resources.

The increases will be offset by inter-departmental transfers, increases to Appropriations in Aid, take up of End Year Flexibility entitlements and a charge to the DEL Reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

Departmental Expenditure

The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Ms Patricia Hewitt): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate the Department of Trade and Industry's DEL will be increased by

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£92,689,000 from £4,763,244,000 to £4,855,933,000 and the Administration Costs limit will be increased by £18,592,000 from £423,187,000 to £441,779,000.

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

£'000

Resources				Capital
Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted
51,189	3,773,918	1,175,588	2,598,330	41,500	1,082,015	-9,146	1,091,161

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

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(i) an increase in the non Voted expenditure of Postwatch of £1,180,000 offset by an equivalent increase in voted licence fee receipts;

(ii) transfer of £43,000 from the Department for Transport in relation to the EU Fifth Framework Programme;

(iii) transfer of £221,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Neighbourhood Renewal Unit for the Business Brokers Pilot Project;

(iv) transfer of £700,000 to the Northern Ireland executive for innovative broadband schemes;

(v) transfer of £1,000,000 from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport to assist in the establishment of Ofcom;

(vi) a virement of £272,000 from voted business support to non voted expenditure of the Regional Development Agencies;

(vii) an increase in non voted expenditure of the Regional Development Agencies by £949,000 to reflect additional receipts from British Trade International;

(viii) to increase the gross provision for grant in aid to Regional Development Agencies by £7,332,000 and increase appropriations in aid by an equivalent amount to reflect additional receipts from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister;

(ix) utilisation of £21,100,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement to provide for advisers and legal costs in relation to British Energy;

(x) utilisation of £1,100,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement for corporate communications and brand strategy;

(xi) transfer of £26,000 from the Home Office to non voted expenditure of the Design Council for the Design Against Crime project;

(xii) utilisation of £4,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement to provide for increased non voted expenditure of the Regional Development Agencies.

Within the change to the resource DEL, the changes to the administration costs limit are:

(xiii) utilisation of £13,602,000 and £2,961,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement in relation to administration;

(xiv) utilisation of £324,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement for the ACAS Work Life Balance Invest to Save project;

(xv) reclassification from programme to administration of £348,000 received in the Winter Supplementary from the Department for Education and Skills in relation to Work Life Balance to reflect funding via ACAS;

(xvi) an increase in gross administration expenditure and receipts of £418,000 to reflect increased receipts from other Government Departments;

(xvii) transfer of £439,000 from the Cabinet Office in relation to Women and Equality as a result of Machinery of Government changes;

(xviii) a virement of £500,000 from programme to administration in respect of business information start-ups.

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(i) utilisation of £200,000 from the Departmental Unallocated Provision for OST initiatives;

(ii) utilisation of £2,515,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement for Knowledge Transfer;

2. There is also an increase in non-Voted expenditure on Enemy Property Claims liabilities of £5,000,000.

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

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(i) utilisation of £4,500,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement for the Small Business Service National Gateway Capital Modernisation Fund project;

(ii) take up of £3,000,000 from the business.gov Capital Modernisation Fund project;

(iii) utilisation of £8,000,000 and £26,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement to provide for increased expenditure and reduced receipts in relation to the Rolls Royce Trent 600 and 900 projects;

(iv) to increase the gross provision for grant in aid to Regional Development Agencies by £35,039,000 and increase appropriations in aid by an equivalent amount to reflect additional receipts from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.

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