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NORTHERN IRELAND

Tourism Ireland

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Ian Pearson): Copies of Tourism Ireland Limited's Annual Report and Accounts 2002 were placed in the Library today.

Departmental Expenditure Limit

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Paul Murphy): Subject to Parliamentary approval the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) will be taking a 2003/2004 Winter Supplementary Estimate. The effect this will have is to increase the NIO's DEL by £45,614,000 from £1,135,302,000 to £1,180,916,000. There will be no change to the administration costs limit. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital 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
37,190	1,108,064	372,186	735,878	8,424	72,852	22,452	50,400

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from the draw down of £37,190,000 End Year Flexibility. The extra resource costs cover a range of areas within the Department such as policing + security, central administration, political, criminal justice and prisons. The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from the draw down of £8,424,000 End Year Flexibility. The extra capital costs cover a range of areas within the Department such as policing + security, central administration, political, criminal justice and prisons.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

Departmental Expenditure Limit

The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Ms Patricia Hewitt): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department of Trade & Industry's DEL will be increased by £280,631,000 from £5,016,724,000 to £5,297,355,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £8,329,000 from £423,366,000 to £431,695,000.

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

(£000)

		New DEL
	Change	Voted	Non-voted	Total
Resource	198,170	980,210	3,738,490	4,718,700
Capital	82,461	289,936	288,719	578,655
	Depreciation*0		-20,841	-93,159	-114,000
Total	280,631	1,249,305	3,934,050	5,183,355

* 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 the resource element of the DEL arises from:

RfR1

(i) to transfer £2,202,000 to the Scottish Executive in respect of the End of Life Vehicles Directive;


(ii) to transfer £1,268,000 to the Welsh Executive in respect of the End of Life Vehicles Directive;


(iii) to reclassify £775,000 from voted expenditure to non-voted expenditure, to reflect the funding of Smart and Enterprise Grant Teams and Business link regional teams co-location costs, via Regional Development Agencies;


(iv) to utilise £6,900,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for Industry Forum, Fit for the Future and Partnership Activities;


(v) to utilise £12,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for Business Link core services;


(vi) to utilise £15,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for Rover Task Force;


(vii) to utilise £6,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for University Innovation Centres;


(viii) to reclassify £1,869,000 from voted expenditure to non-voted expenditure, to reflect funding of administration of Regional Selective Assistance via Regional Development Agencies;


(ix) an increase of £77,169,000 to reflect the transfer of non-voted, non-cash RDA budgets from the ODPM;


(x) to transfer £2,000,000 to UK Trade and Investment (formerly British Trade International) in respect of UK Global Partnerships;

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(xi) to transfer £524,000 to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in respect of the Red Meat Industry Forum under the Industry Forum Adaptation Initiative;


(xii) to utilise £7,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for external financial and legal advisers in relation to British Energy;


(xiii) to implement a classification change of £ 1,929,000 to make a technical correction to the Department's Cost of Capital allocation;


(xiv) to utilise £2,800,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for advisers in relation to BNFL;


(xv) to transfer £32,000 to the Department of Transport for Enforcement of the Working Time Directive;


(xvi) to transfer from the Department of Health £32,000 for the Doctors and Dentists Pay Review Body and £24,000 for the Nurses and Allied Professions Pay Review Body;


(xvii) to utilise £3,500,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of development of the MENTOR project;


(xviii) to reclassify £2,000 from voted expenditure to non-voted expenditure and then to transfer £177,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for the Pan Government Agreement for Supply of Ordnance Survey Data;


(xix) to increase by £490,000 the non-voted expenditure of Postwatch and record an equivalent increase in voted receipts;


(xx) to increase by £2,093,000 the non-voted expenditure of the Gas and Electricity Consumer Council (Energywatch) and record an equivalent increase in voted receipts;


(xxi) an increase of £100,000 due to a reclassification in respect of non-voted accruing cost of pensions for the National Consumer Council;

RfR2

(i) to utilise £687,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for OST initiatives;


(ii) to utilise £20,126,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for increased non-voted expenditure of the Medical Research Council;


(iii) to utilise £3,047,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for increased non-voted expenditure of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils;


(iv) to utilise £44,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for the Joint Infrastructure Fund;


(v) a reduction of £5,105,000 in the non-voted expenditure of the Science Research Councils to reflect the reclassification of 50% of EU receipts from non-Departmental AME to DEL;


(vi) a utilisation of £835,000 from the Department's End Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of non-voted EU DEL cover for the Natural Environment Research Council.

Also within the change to resource DEL, the changes to administration costs limit are (RfR1):

(i) to transfer £861,000 of administration from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister in respect of Government Offices for the Regions;


(ii) to utilise £1,693,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for Departmental administration;

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(iii) to transfer £108,000 of administration to the Department of Education and Skills for Certificates of Experience and First Diploma Directive;


(iv) to utilise £5,883,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement in respect of UK Trade & Investment (formerly British Trade International) administration;

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

(i) to utilise £2,074,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for Rover Task Force;


(ii) to utilise £7,300,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for University Innovation Centres;


(iii) to utilise £24,000,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for support for the establishment of Ofcom;


(iv) to utilise £18,913,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for the Regional Venture Capital Fund and Enterprise Fund Early Growth Funding;


(v) to utilise £15,000,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for investment aid to the Coal Industry;


(vi) to utilise £2,737,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of implementation of the Parental Leave Regulations;


(vii) to utilise £3,811,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of the business.gov Capital Modernisation Fund project;


(viii) to utilise £113,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of the Employment Tribunals Service Capital Modernisation Fund project;


(ix) to utilise £2,000,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of expenditure on accommodation and relocation;


(x) to utilise £4,604,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement to increase non-voted expenditure of the Natural Environment Research Council;


(xi) to utilise £1,909,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement to increase non-voted expenditure of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council.

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