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Written Ministerial Statements

Thursday 27 November 2003

WALES

Powys NHS Trust

The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Hain): Pursuant to the dissolution of the Powys NHS trust on 1 April 2003 and its absorption into the Powys Local Health Board, and the remission of the outstanding debt of the dissolved trust, HM Treasury has presented a Minute to the House on 27/11/2003 giving particulars and circumstances of the remission proposed by the National Assembly for Wales which it has approved in principle.

Departmental Expenditure Limit

The Secretary of State for Wales (Mr. Peter Hain): The Wales Departmental Expenditure Limit will be increased by £1,344,000, from £10,608,142,000 to £10,609,486,000. The increase is a result of:


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D.E.L provision for the Wales Office of £4,154,000 (net of depreciation) including £3,330,000 for administration costs is included within the limits of the Department for Constitutional Affairs.

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT

Departmental Expenditure Limit

The Secretary of State for International Development (Hilary Benn): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department for International Development DEL for 2003–04 will be increased by £127,348,000 from £3,629,106,000 to £3,756,454,000 and the administration costs limits has been increased by £3,250,000 from £209,000,000 to £212,250,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

(£000)

ResourcesCapital
ChangeNew DELOf which votedNon-votedChangeNew DELOf which votedNon-voted
126,8483,765,9542,891,954874,00050011,50011,500

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from: RfR 1: Eliminating Poverty in Poorer Countries a transfer of £10,000,000 resource from the Unallocated subhead to the Reducing Poverty in sub-Saharan Africa Grants subhead; a transfer of £14,000 resource from DFID Reducing Poverty in Asia subhead to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office as a contribution to a British Geological Survey visit to Afghanistan; a transfer of £3,250,000 resource from the Central Reserve to the Reducing Poverty in the Rest of the World Administration subhead; a transfer of £1,000,000 resource from DEFRA representing a contribution to the Environmental Know-How Fund; a transfer of £116,250,000 resource from the Central Reserve to the Reducing Poverty in the Rest of the World Grants subhead; a transfer of £75,000,000 resource from the Unallocated subhead to the Reducing Poverty in the Rest of the World Grants subhead; a transfer of £38,000 resource from DFID Developing Innovative Approaches to Development subhead to the Home Office as DFID's contribution to GRECO membership; a transfer of £6,400,000 resource from the Central Reserve to the Developing Innovative Approaches to Development Grants subhead. The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from: a transfer of £500,000 from the Central Reserve to the Reducing Poverty in the Rest of the World capital subhead.

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HOME OFFICE

Departmental Expenditure Limit

The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. David Blunkett): Plans of changes to the Departmental Expenditure Limit and Administrative Cost Limit for 2003–04 are set out below.

Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Home Office's Departmental Expenditure Limits for 2003–04 will be decreased by £11,514,000 from £12,546,484,000 to £12,534,970,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £80,386,000 from £3,351,317,000 to £3,431,703,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

New DEL
ChangeVotedNon-votedTotal
Resource27,36710,155,8441,544,82511,700,669
Capital-8,881822,573233,5461,056,119
Depreciation*—-182,725-39,093-221,818
Total-11,51410,795,6921,739,27812,534,970

* Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.

Details of the changes are available in the House Library.

DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER

Departmental Expenditure Limit

The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. John Prescott): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Departmental Expenditure Limits for 2003–04 will change as follows:

(1) the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Main Programmes DEL will be increased by £259,342,000 from £6,655,307,000 to £6,914,649,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £29,268,000 from £367,110,000 to £396,378,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resource and capital are tabled below.

(£000)

New DEL
ChangeVotedNon-votedTotal
Resource212,8293,036,1501,978,9985,015,148
Capital46,513640,4651,259,0361,899,501
Depreciation*1,594-16,468-2,000-18,468
Total260,9363,660,1473,236,0346,896,181

* Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting. The change in depreciation is due to capital spending on The Rent Service and Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency programmes and transfer from the provision for Regional Development Agencies to the Department of Trade and Industry.

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The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from: (i) take up of End Year Flexibility of £266,254,000 comprising:


(ii) a net transfer of £52,925,000 to other government departments, comprising:


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(iii) An increase in receipts of £10,667,000 to offset similar increase in provision for Payment to Ordnance Survey and £850,000 to offset a similar increase in provision for Research.

(iv) A transfer of £500,000 to Request for Resources 2, to fund Audit Commission Performance Assessment.

(v) A net transfer of £21,844,000 from voted to non-voted provisions comprising:


(vi) A reclassification of £91,462,000 New Deal for Communities resource investment provision as capital by a transfer to the Housing Corporation, non-voted provision fully offset by a transfer of capital from the Sustainable Communities Plan.

(vii) As a result of the changes to Request for Resources 1, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's administration provision has been increased by £29,268,000 from £379,652,000 to £408,920,000.

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

(a) take up of end year flexibility of £44,093,000 comprising


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(b) a transfer of £2,420,000 from the Department for Trade and Industry for core funding from SR2002 settlement.

Within the capital element of the DEL there is a net transfer of £66,267,000 from non-voted to voted provisions, comprising: £14,500,000 from provision to non-voted English Partnerships; £8,078,000 supplementary credit approvals for other housing programmes; £5,556,000 local authority Supplementary credit approvals for Fire New Dimension Search and Rescue and £67,133,000 to partly fund the New Deal for Communities reclassification).

(2) The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Local Government DEL will be increased by £27,947,000 from £41,331,545,000 to £41,359,492,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are tabled below.

£000

New DEL
ChangeVotedNon-votedTotal
Resource19,49840,928,70098,08241,026,782
Capital8,449324,7108,000332,710
Depreciation*0000
Total27,94741,253,410106,08241,359,492

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

(i) take up of End Year Flexibility of £13,298,000 comprising:


(ii) a transfer of £500,000 from Request for Resources 1 for Audit Commission Performance Assessment;

(iii) a transfer of £5,700,000 from capital for Local Government on Line.

The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from draw down of £12,000,000 from the capital modernisation fund (end year flexibility), £2,149,000 from the Invest to Save Budget and a transfer of £5,700,000 to resource to increase provision for Local Government on Line.


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