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PRIME MINISTER
Supplementary Estimates
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 £27,620,000 from £1,497,446,000 to £1,525,066,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by
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£4,295,000 from £566,324,000 to £570,619,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| New DEL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| Resource | 13,819,000 | 1,119,106,000 | 11,750,000 | 1,130,856,000 |
| Capital | 14,402,000 | 530,411,000 | 5,000,000 | 535,411,000 |
| Depreciation* | 601,000 | 141,201,000 | - | 141,201,000 |
| Total | 27,620,000 | 1,508,316,000 | 16,750,000 | 1,525,066,000 |
CABINET OFFICE
Supplementary Estimates
The Minister for the Cabinet Office and Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (Mr. Douglas Alexander): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Cabinet Office DEL will be increased by £2,043,000 from £311,289,000 to £313,332,000 and the gross administration costs limits will be increased by £2,644,000 from £223,733,000 to £226,377,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| New DEL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| Resource | 1,182 | 277,297 | 0 | 277,297 |
| Capital | 861 | 86,189 | 0 | 86,189 |
| Depreciation* | 0 | -50,154 | 0 | -50,154 |
| Total | 2,043 | 313,332 | 0 | 277,297 |
*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 additions from the DEL reserve of £3,500,000 for human resources restructuring, draw down of £140,000 end year flexibility on Invest to Save funding provided to the Centre for Mgement and Policy Studies and net transfers to other government departments of £2,458,000.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from transfers from other departments of £861,000.
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SOLICITOR-GENERAL
Supplementary Estimates
The Solicitor-General (Ms Harriet Harman): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £19,955,000 from £568,904,000 to £588,859,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £9,683,000 from £429,591,000 to £439,274,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| New DEL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| Resource | 19,575,000 | 573,179,000 | 0 | 573,179,000 |
| Capital | 380,000 | 15,680,000 | 0 | 15,680,000 |
| Depreciation* | 0 | -4,573,000 | 0 | -4,573,000 |
| Total | 19,955,000 | 584,286,000 | 0 | 584,286,000 |
*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 Crown Prosecution Service's element of the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £16,574,000 from £511,661,000 to £528,235,000 and the Administration Costs Limit will be increased by £7,683,000 from £401,574,000 to £409,257,000.
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
- Administration costs changes resulting from the take up of DEL End-Year Flexibility of £5,000,000, as set out in the Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper (Cm 5884); a transfer of £543,000 from the Department of Constitutional Affairs to support Effective Trial Mgement pilots; a transfer of £500,000 from the Home Office to support Local Criminal Boards in increasing local confidence in the Criminal Justice System; a transfer of £40,000 from the Department of Constitutional Affairs to fund Local Criminal Justice Board support; and an internal transfer of £1,600,000 from programme expenditure to administration costs to support the increased deployment of Higher Court Advocates in the Crown Court; and
- Programme expenditure changes in respect of the take-up of DEL End-Year Flexibility of £6,792,000, as set out in the Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper (Cm 5884); a transfer of £3,300,000 from the Home Office to support the joint delivery of government targets for recovering Proceeds of Crime; a transfer of £210,000 from the Home Office Recovered Assets Incentivisation Fund to fund a Scoping Study and Framework Agreement for the Appointment of
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- Receivers; a transfer of £189,000 from the Home Office to support joint working and improve effective use of enforcement measures for Anti-Social Behaviour; a internal transfer of £1,600,000 programme expenditure to administration costs to support the increased deployment Higher Court Advocates in the Crown Court; and a transfer of £7,000,000 from non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision to voted programme expenditure in resource DEL.
- The Serious Fraud Office's DEL will be increased by £3,000,000 from £28,850,000 to £31,850,000 and the Administration Costs Limit will be increased by £2,000,000 from £18,475,000 to £20,475,000.
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from a part claim on the DEL Reserve of £1,000,000 in respect of additional costs relating to two blockbuster cases; the take-up of End-Year Flexibility of £1,000,000 administration costs and £1,000,000 resource programme costs.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from the take-up of end year flexibility of £380,000 capital relating to the increase in IT expenditure.
The Treasury Solicitor's Departmental DEL will be increased by £1,000 from £13,093,000 to £13,094,000. A £1,000 token increase arises from additional demand for legal services provided to other Government Departments.
There is no increase in the Treasury Solicitors Administration Cost Limit and no claims on the DEL Re serve or End-Year Flexibility have been made.
DEFENCE
Nimrod MRA4
The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Geoffrey Hoon): We announced, in February last year, that agreement had been reached with BAE SYSTEMS on the way ahead for the Nimrod MRA4 programme and undertook to report significant developments to the House. We are pleased to announce that, following detailed negotiations, a contract amendment, formally embodying the Agreement, was signed on 23 February 2004.
Signature of the contract amendment demonstrates the positive relationship between the MOD and the Company and the joint commitment to deliver this important military capability within the terms of our agreement. This contract amendment, however, although important, is not an end in itself. The work over the past year in putting the Agreement into effect has set the programme on a much sounder footing for the future. Risks and challenges remain however, and we are working hard, with the Company, to assure the long-term stability of the programme.
TRADE AND INDUSTRY
Supplementary Estimates
The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Ms Patricia Hewitt): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Office of Gas and Electricity Markets DEL will be decreased by £799,000 from £1,531,000 to £732,000 and the administration costs limits will remain unchanged at
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£1,398,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| New DEL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| Resource | 1,000 | 682,000 | - | 682,000 |
| Capital | -800,000 | 50,000 | - | 50,000 |
| Depreciation* | - | -1,300,000 | - | -1,300,000 |
| Total | -799,000 | -568,000 | - | 568,000 |
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 £280,472,000 from £5,297,355,000 to £5,577,827,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £2,998,000 from £431,695,000 to £434,693,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:
| New DEL | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| Resource (£000) | 224,012 | 1,072,089 | 3,870,623 | 4,942,712 |
| Capital (£000) | 56,460 | 310,301 | 324,814 | 635,115 |
| Depreciation* (£000) | 0 | -20,841 | -93,159 | -114,000 |
| Total (£000) | 280,472 | 1,361,549 | 4,102,278 | 5,463,827 |
*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) a transfer of £11,200,000 from the Ministry of Defence in support of dual-use Aero Engine technology programmes; ii) a transfer of £67,000 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of the subscription to UNCLOS; iii) a transfer of £385,000 from the Home Office in respect of the Prison Services Pay Review Body; iv) a transfer from the Ministry of Defence of £43,000 in respect of the Armed Forces Pay Review Body and £16,000 in respect of the Senior Salaries Review Body;
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v) a transfer of £58,000 from the Northern Ireland Office in respect of the Prison Services Pay Review Body; vi) a transfer of £15,000 from the Cabinet Office in respect of the Senior Salaries Pay Review Body; vii) a transfer of £79,000 from the Department for Education and Skills in respect of the School Teachers Pay Review Body; viii) a transfer of £49,000 from the Department for Transport in respect of the FP6 Sustainable Surface Transport programme; ix) a transfer of £195,000 to the Department for Transport for the Low CVP Permanent Secretariat; x) reclassification of £24,000,000 in respect of OFCOM establishment costs from resource to capital expenditure; xi) a virement of £9,786,000 from voted Cost of Capital to non-voted Cost of Capital in respect of Companies House and the Patent Office; xii) transfer of £1,000,000 to the Department of Health in respect of Genetic Knowledge Parks; xiii) utilisation of £12,200,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of Nuclear Support for the former Soviet Union; (xiv) utilisation of £3,862,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of the Rover Task Force; (xv) utilisation of £19,541,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of Innovation and Space; (xvi) utilisation of £12,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of the Modernisation of the Post Office Network; (xvii) utilisation of £50,000 from the Capital Modernisation Fund in respect of the Evidence Based Policy Fund study of the UK's e-business performance; (xviii) an increase of £1,498,000 in the non-voted expenditure of Postwatch and an equivalent increase in voted receipts; (xix) a classification change of £17,683,000 from capital to current expenditure in respect of the National Measurement System PFI deal; (xx) an increase of £63,893,000 in the non-voted expenditure of the Regional Development Agencies and an equivalent increase in voted receipts; (xxi) utilisation of £4,500,000 of the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement in respect of non-voted expenditure of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority; (xxii) utilisation of £15,260,000 of the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the Competition Commission.
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RfR2 i) utilisation of £2,930,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council; ii) utilisation of £461,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the Medical Research Council; iii) utilisation of £1,541,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the Council for the Central Laboratory of the Research Councils; iv) utilisation of £9,456,000 for resource and £239,000 for capital grants from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the Natural Environment Research Council; v) utilisation of £22,569,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council; (vi) a transfer of £200,000 from the Department for Education and Skills in respect of Women's Resource Centres; vii) utilisation of £24,012,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for the Higher Education Innovation Fund. Office of Deputy Prime Minister Estimate i) utilisation of £67,427,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for European Regional Development Fund expenditure borne of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Estimate; ii) utilisation of £22,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department of Work and Pension's End-Year Flexibility entitlement under the PES pool arrangement for European Development Fund expenditure borne on the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Estimate. Also within the change to resource DEL, the changes to administration costs limit are: RfR1 i) a transfer of £32,000 from the Home Office in respect of the Prison Services Pay Review body; ii) a transfer of £17,000 from the Department of Constitutional Affairs in respect of the Senior Salaries Pay Review body; iii) a transfer of £105,000 from the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs in respect of the Farm Business Advice Service; iv) a transfer of £300,000 from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of UK Trade and Investment E-business; v) implementation of an agreed classification change of £824,000 from capital to administration in respect of UK Trade and Investment E-business; vi) utilisation of £290,000 of Invest to Save funding in respect of Claims Handling in the Redundancy Payments Service;
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vii) implementation of an agreed virement from programme to administration of £1,500,000 in respect of the Liabilities Mgement Authority. RfR2 i) a transfer of £70,000 to the Department of Health in respect of the Human Genetics Commission. The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from: RfR1 i) utilisation of £14,100,000 of capital from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority; ii) an increase of £21,995,000 in the non-voted capital expenditure of the Regional Development Agencies and an equivalent increase in voted receipts; iii) reclassification of £24,000,000 in respect of OFCOM establishment costs from resource to capital expenditure; iv) utilisation of £20,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for research establishment capital in respect of the National Measurement System and the Teddington PFI deal; v) implementation of a classification change of £824,000 from capital to current expenditure in respect of E-business; vi) a transfer of £816,000 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of E-business; vii) implementation of an agreed virement of £17,683,000 from capital to resource in respect of the National Measurement System Private Finance Initiative deal, and a classification change of £17,683,000 to reflect the on-balance sheet impact of the National Physical Laboratory virement.
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