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Sizewell B Nuclear Power Station

The Minister for Energy and Construction (Mr Brian Wilson): In the statement made by the Under-Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, my hon. Friend the Member for Edinburgh, South (Nigel Griffiths) on 14 January 2003, Official Report, col. 547–50, he said that the Greenpeace protestors who entered the Sizewell nuclear power station had not penetrated any of the internal security barriers.

My hon. Friend's statement was made on the basis of the best information available at the time from the nuclear operating company, British Energy. However, it is now known that although initial reports did not indicate that any sensitive area had been breached at the time of the Greenpeace incursion, a subsequent inspection by the Office for Civil Nuclear Security has established that some of the intruders entered through a door, which amounted to a breach of the Sizewell inner security barrier. Further defences within the inner security barrier contained the intruders and I should stress that at no time were any sensitive areas of the plant breached. The incursion was accurately assessed at the time not to pose a security threat and the response was measured and appropriate.

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The Director of Civil Nuclear Security has implemented a full investigation into the incursion, including this breach, with the full co-operation of the operating company. Immediate remedial action has been taken to prevent a recurrence of this breach of the inner security barrier and other lessons learned from the incident are being acted on appropriately.

CULTURE, MEDIA AND SPORT

Departmental Expenditure

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The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Tessa Jowell): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport DEL will be reduced by £965,000 from £1,330,773,000 to £1,329,808,000 and the Administration Costs limits will be reduced by £4,731,000 from £42,166,000 to £37,435,000.

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
-965	1,166,432	166,837	999,595	-	163,376	116,495	46,881

The £2,908,000 increase in the voted element of the resource DEL for RfRI arises from the recovery from sale proceeds of £223,000 for repairs to Apethorpe Hall; the transfer of £20,000 administration costs expenditure from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (RfR4) toward the administration costs of local public service agreements (PSAs); a transfer of £749,000 to the Home Office for the Queen's Golden Jubilee Award scheme plus an addition of £351,000 fully offset by a transfer of £1,100,000 from non-Voted resource DEL; a transfer of £1,000,000 to the Department of Trade and Industry for the costs of setting up OFCOM fully offset by a transfer of £1,000,000 from non-Voted resource DEL; and additional resources of £2,760,000 for the costs of the funeral for the late Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother, also fully offset by a reduction in non-Voted resource DEL

The £3,873,000 reduction in the non-voted element of the resource DEL for RfR1 arises from the transfer of £830,000 from the Departmental Unallocated Provision; the reimbursement of English Heritage of £223,000 for repairs to Apethorpe Hall; a reduction of £4,030,000 in non-Voted resource DEL cover for the Historic Royal Palaces deficit; the provision of additional resources of £14,000 to the Public Lending Right, of £674,000 to English Heritage, and £76,000 to the Broadcasting Standards Commission for the costs of paying accrued superannuation liability contributions in excess of pensions payments following their transfer into the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme.

The £4,731,000 decrease in the Department's Administration Costs Limit arises from the transfer of £4,751,000 from administration costs to resource DEL as a result of the reclassification of the delivery of services of The Royal Parks; and a transfer of £20,000 administration costs expenditure from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (RfR4) toward the administration costs of local public service agreements (PSAs).

The Voted and non-Voted elements of Capital DEL are unchanged.

PRIME MINISTER

Departmental Expenditure

The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Security and Intelligence Agencies DEL will be increased by £36,655,000 from £973,949,000 to £1,010,604,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £6,865,000 from £477,256,000 to £484,121,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the table:

	Resources	Capital
	£	£
Change	12,905,000	23,750,000
New DEL	846,819,000	163,403,000
Of which:
Voted	846,819,000	163,403,000
Non-voted	—	—

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

1. the take up of End of Year Flexibility (EYF) of £10,500,000;

2. a PES transfer of £120,000 from the MOD;

3. a PES transfer of £1,050,000 from the Home Office;

4. a transfer of £1,235,000 to Resource from Capital

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

1. the take up of End of Year Flexibility (EYF) of £24,600,000;

2. a PES transfer of £385,000 from the Cabinet Office;

3. a transfer of £1,235,000 from Capital to Resource.

SCOTLAND

Departmental Expenditure

The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mrs Helen Liddell): Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Scotland Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be

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increased by £310,555,000 from £18,290,311,000 to £18,600,866,000. The Scotland Office administration costs limit is unchanged.

The DEL increase takes account of the following:

A reclassification into DEL of £189,603,000 for Edinburgh Royal Infirmary;

The take-up of End Year Flexibility (EYF) by the Scottish Executive amounting to £90,000,000;

An increase of £1,562,000 to meet the costs of the Lockerbie trial;

An increase of £1,156,000 for the Scottish Parliament elections;

A reclassification into AME of £5,400,000 for fire service pensions.

The DEL increase also includes the following transfers between the Scottish Executive and other Government departments, amounting to a net increase of £33,634,000. These are:

A transfer of £26,086,000 from the Department of Transport;

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Net transfers of £4,337,000 from the Home Office;

Net transfers of £2,050,000 from the Department of Health;

Net transfers of £880,000 from the Department for Work and Pensions;

A transfer of £358,000 from the Northern Ireland Executive;

A transfer of £60,000 from the National Assembly for Wales; and

A transfer of £137,000 to the Department for Education and Skills.

HOME DEPARTMENT

Departmental Expenditure

The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Blunkett): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Home Office's Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) for 2002–03 will change as follows.

£'000

Resources				Capital
Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: voted	Non voted
947,615	10,378,398	8,937,731	1,440,667	21,112	1,099,814	928,938	170,876

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

(i) Claims on the DEL reserve: Claims on the Treasury DEL reserve of £822,410,000 for RfR01 comprising £185,000,000 to subhead H1 for costs arising from the Immigration and Nationality Directorate (IND); £601,696,000 to subhead H2 to cover asylum support costs significantly in excess of budget allocation (£600,000,000) and funding from the Organised Crime Reserve for Project Reflex (£1,696,000); £25,000,000 to RfR01: subhead AN3 to increase resources for compensation payments and £7,014,000 for additional grant in aid to provide cover for non-recoverable VAT payments. The remaining £3,700,000 is in respect of the Criminal Records Bureau. The bulk of this claim, as last year, simply aligns the resource budget for IND more closely with the actual spend and reflects a long-planned in-year adjustment to the unrealistic budget level originally set in July 2000. (ii) Criminal Records Bureau: A reduction of £11,485,000 in RfR01: subhead E1 and a corresponding increase of £37,447,000 in RfR01: subhead E.5 consisting of a reduction in the forecast of receipts, as well as contributions totaling £10,200,000 from Department of Health and Department for Education and Skills. The £25,962,000 increase in the Home Office Admin Resource DEL is offset by additional resources of £3,700,000 from the Treasury Reserve and Admin savings of £22,262,000 from within the Department which will ensure that the Admin cost limit is not exceeded. (iii) Transfers from Other Government Departments (OGDs) totaling £15,706,000 including: Cabinet Office to RfFM: subhead C1 of £250,000 to provide the appropriate provision for the transfer of the CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological & Nuclear) Team. Department of Culture, Media and Sport to RfR1: subhead G2 of £749,000 for the transfer of the Golden Jubilee Awards Team. Department for Education and Skills of £196,000 to RfR01: subhead J2 in respect of Children & Young peoples Boost (£95,000); subhead G3 for a contribution towards the Voluntary Sector Portal Project (£20,000) and subhead JT for a transfer from the Children's Fund relating to On Track Evaluation (£81,000). Department of Health to RfRI: subhead G3 of £62,000 for matched funded Intermediate Care Services Project. Department of Work and Pensions to RfR1: subhead AQ3 of £450,000 for Street Crime Initiative Funding to link street crime offenders into employment opportunities. Lord Chancellor's Department to RfR01: subhead C3 of £11,760,000 to provide the appropriate provision for payments from the Recovered Assets Fund. Northern Ireland Office to RfRI: subhead D3 of £4,000 for a contribution to GRECO. Office of National Statistics to RfR01: subhead B3 of £240,000 to provide the appropriate provision for NeSS project work—funding for CO4—Crime Data Extraction. Scottish Office to RfR1: subhead D3 for £13,000 for a contribution to GRECO. Welsh Office to RfR01: subhead A3 of £13,742,000 to provide the appropriate provision for the costs of centrally managed police projects. (iv) Transfers to OGDs totaling £23,829,000 including: Crown Prosecution Service of £1,200,000 to provide the appropriate provision to video suspects. Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs of £1,500,000 to provide the appropriate provision for Locks For Pensioners. £1,539,000 to Department for Education and Skills for Moorfoot MOTO (£201,000) transfer for a Match Funding Project (£1,113,000): Transfer for the Community Cohesion Pathfinder Programme—Community Champions (£225,000). £3,495,000 to the Department of Health from RfR01: subhead J2 for National Drug Treatment Monitoring System (£316,000), Drug Testing Treatment Orders (DTTO) (£60,000) and Crack Treatment Pilots (£150,000); from subhead AQ3 to increase the number of DTTO's in seven street crime areas (£540,000); from subhead D2 for Staff induction costs for DSPD unit at Broadmoor (£218,000); from subhead C3 to provide the appropriate provision for 'DAT Training on Treatment Commissioning ¹ (£25,000), to provide the appropriate provision for 'Central drug treatment Fund' (£1,161,000), to provide appropriate provision for 'In House training for Drug Treatment Workers' (£100,000) and to provide the appropriate provision for 'Drug Related Deaths' (£925,000). £26,000 to the Department of Trade and Industry from RfR01: subhead B3 to provide the appropriate provision for Design Against Crime. £1,627,000 to the Department of Vehicle Licensing Agency

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from subhead B3 to provide the appropriate provision for Vehicle Crime. £110,000 to the Lord Chancellors Department from RfFM: subhead D1 for JT inspections cross cutting civil justice project. £34,000 to the Northern Ireland Office from RfR1: subhead G1 for the Golden Jubilee Awards. £8,693,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister from RfR01: subhead G1 (£310,000) for the Golden Jubilee Awards, subhead G1 (£180,000) for the Community Cohesion Pathfinder Programme for staffing, subhead G1 (£380,000) for the Time Limited Development Fund, from subhead B1 (£6,104,000) to provide the appropriate provision for RCU tariff costs for the crime reduction teams, subhead C3 (£1,280,000) to provide the appropriate provision for 'Rough Sleepers Unit1 and subhead A2 (£439,000) to provide appropriate provision for Government Office involvement in Street Crime Initiative. £4,384,000 to the Scotland Office subhead H2 of (£4,350,000) for Local Authority Asylum Support Payments and subhead Clot (£34,000) for the Golden Jubilee Awards. £1,050,000 to the Security Intelligence Service from RfROT: subhead C2 to provide the appropriate provision for overseas drugs related assistance. £61,000 to the Wales Office from RfR01: subhead G1 (£34,000) for the Golden Jubilee Awards and subhead C3 (£27,000) to provide the appropriate provision for 'lechyd Morghannwg DAT'. £110,000 to the Cabinet Off ice from RfR01: subhead D1 for exchange demonstrator work funded from CJIT. (v) Transfers between RfR01 and RfR02 £265,000 from RfROI to RfR02 comprising: £235,000 from RfR01: subhead H1 to RfR02: subhead A1 for costs associated with the Immigration Removal Centres at Haslar, Dover and Lindholme. £30,000 from RfR01: subhead F2 to RfR02: subhead C2 in respect of OASys OPOL project funding. £14,825,000 from RfR02 to RfROI comprising: £115,000 from RfR02: subhead CT to RfROI: subhead D1 representing a transfer of CJS Reserve £40,000 from RfR02: subhead C1 to RfROI: subhead F1 representing a transfer of funding for the OASys IT project £20,000 from RfR02: subhead C1 to RfROI: subhead J1 in respect of long term evaluation contracts £9,600,000 from RfR02: subhead A1 to RfROI: subhead A1 in respect of crime reduction £4,800,000 from RfR02: subhead A1 to RfROI: subhead D1 representing a transfer of CJS reserve, £250,000 from RfR02: subhead C2 to RfROI: subhead AL3 representing a transfer of funding for policing through the National Crime Squad. (vi) Funding changes: to provide additional resources of £14,326,000 in subhead A1, £200,000 in subhead A2 and additional income of £14,526,000 in subhead A5 in respect of additional funding from the Youth Justice Board; a reduction of £3,278,000 resources from subhead A1 and a matching reduction of £3,278,000 income from subhead A5 in RfR02 in respect of funding from DfES for prison education an increase of £1,240,000 income in subhead A5 in RfR02 in respect of additional funding from DfES for prison education an increase of £1,400,000 in RfR02: subhead A5 in respect of additional rental income from prison service property Lord Chancellor's Department to RfR01: subhead C5 of £11,760,000 receipts and a corresponding increase in subhead C3 to provide the appropriate provision for payments from the Recovered Assets Fund; HM Treasury to RfR01: subhead K5 of £2,341,000 receipts and a corresponding increase in subhead K1 in respect of the transfer of the lease of Allington Towers. (vii) Exchange Exchange with HM Treasury capital in RfR01: subhead A7 with resource in RfR01: subhead A2 of £49,700,000 to provide the appropriate provision for DMA, science and technology projects and electronic chipping.

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(viii) Drawdown of Departmental Unallocated Provision: Drawdown of £11,460,000 from the DUP into RfR01: subhead A1 to provide additional resources for policing. (ix) EC Receipts: Additional receipts of £60,000 in RfR01: subhead G5 and additional resources of £60,000 in RfR01: subhead ATS, representing a payment from the European Union to the Commission for Racial Equality for the Raxen project. (x) Correction: A reduction of £872,000 A in A in RfR01 subhead G5 corrects calculation of item CXXX in the 'Introduction' to the Winter Supplementary Estimate in which an increase of £436,000 A in A was recorded instead of a decrease. (xi) Further changes: Additional provision of £16,400,000 in RfR01: subhead APS for the YJB; £1,488,000 in RfR02: subhead A1 for the video links project and £1,216,000 in RfR02: subhead A1 for the Prison Service drug strategy.

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

(i) DEL Reserve: Claims on the Treasury DEL reserve of £2,900,000 to RfR01: subhead AN3 to provide additional grant in aid to provide cover for non-recoverable VAT payments. (ii) Transfers to OGDs: £779,000 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office from RfR01: subhead H7 for the setting up of the Zimbabwe Visas Regime (£515,000) and for the setting up of the Jamaican Visas Regime (£264,000). £5,337,000 to the Cabinet Office from RfR01: subhead D1 for exchange demonstrator work funded from CJIT (iii) Transfers between RfR01 and RfR02 £26,000 from RfR01: subhead H7 to RfR02: subhead A7 for costs associated with the Immigration Removal Centres at .Haslar, Dover and Lindholme (iv) Funding Changes: To provide additional resources of £270,000 in subhead RfR02: subhead A7 and a corresponding increase in income in subhead A8 in respect of additional funding from the Youth Justice Board. An increase of in RfR02: subhead A7 of £2,631,000; and subhead B7 of £170,000; and an increase of non-operating income in subhead A8 of £2,631,000; and in subhead B8 of £170,000 in respect of capital funding from DfES for prison education projects. In RfR02 a reduction of £16,350,000 income from sale of assets in subhead A8 and a corresponding reduction of £16,350,000 in subhead A7 in respect of the prison building programme. (v) EYF Take up of £12,719,000 End Year Flexibility in RfR01: subhead D7 from the CJS reserve. (vi) Exchange: Exchange with HM Treasury capital in RfR01: subhead A7 with resource in RfR01: subhead A2 of £49,700,000 to provide the appropriate provision for DMA, science and technology projects and electronic chipping. (vii) Switch: Switch from capital to resource of £13,850,000 from RfR01: subhead D7 to subhead D2. (viii) Further changes: EYF of £36,632,000 in RfR01: subhead A7 and £38,000,000 CMF in RfR02: subhead A7.

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