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Inland Revenue

The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Inland Revenue net administration costs limit will be increased by £4,638,000 from £3,034,649,000 to £3,039,287,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:

£000's

		New DEL
	Change	Voted	Non-voted	Total
Resource	4,638	2,684,502	340,440	3,024,942
Capital	-4,638	202,743	-	202,743
Depreciation*	-	-158,564	-	-158,564
Total	-	2,693,681	340,440	3,069,121

*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 and capital element of the DEL arises from the transfer of £4,638,000 from capital to resource.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Ruth Kelly): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, National Savings and Investments DEL will be increased by £10,000,000 from £170,154,000 to £180,154,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £9,500,000 from £172,068,000 to £181,568,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

£'000s

		New DEL
	Change	Voted	Non-voted	Total
Resource	9,500	172,068		181,568
Capital	0	1,300		1,300
Depreciation*	0	-2,714		-2,714
Total	9,500	170,654		180,154

*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 end year flexibility being drawn down to support expenditure on major project commitments. Such projects include the implementation of the new savings product and continued research on customer needs. Other projects include compliance with the Banking Code/Customer Code, Electronic Data Records Mgement, and others starting this financial year, which will carry forward the modernisation process of National Savings and Investments.

There is no change in the capital element of the DEL.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Ruth Kelly): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, HM Treasury DEL will be increased by £9,067,000 from £209,836,000 to £218,903,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £6,800,000 from £139,588,000 to

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£146,388,000. 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	9,067,000	187,799,000	31,104,000	218,903,000
Capital	0	7,668,000	0	7,668,000
Depreciation*	0	-9,055,000	0	-9,055,000
Total	9,067,000	186,412,000	31,104,000	217,516,000

*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 change in the resource element of the DEL arises from: an increase in total Treasury administrative costs of £6,800,000 resulting from: a partial draw down of eyf of £6,050,000 for the central Treasury; a draw down of £250,000 from the Invest to Save Budget (ISB) to administer the ISB; a partial draw down of eyf of £500,000 for the Debt Mgement Office (DMO); an increase in AinA of £2,500,000 from secondments and the Lambert review of business-university collaboration, with matching spend; an increase in AinA of £2,200,000 from receipts for fees and charges made by the Public Works Loan Board and the Commissioners for the Reduction of the National Debt, with matching spend; a draw down of £131,000 programme from the Evidence Based Policy Fund to finance three projects on—team based incentives (£64,000), research into benefit savings at the local authority level (£45,000), productivity and public sector performance (£22,000); an increase in programme AinA of £450,000 from increased revenue for the Office of Paymaster General (OPG), with matching expenditure; an increase in DMO programme AinA of £350,000 for receipts from recovery of the auction costs of the National Loans Fund, with matching spend; a partial draw down of programme eyf of £2,136,000 for the Office of Government Commerce (OGC); a decrease in OGC programme AinA of £1,101,000, with matching reduction in expenditure. .

The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (John Healey): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the HM Customs and Excise DEL will be increased by £7,046,000, from £1,291,195,000 to £1,298,241,000 and the administration costs limits will be decreased by

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£2,235,000, from £1,132,722,000 to £1,130,487,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

£'000s

		New DEL
	Change	Voted	Non-voted	Total
Resource	7,461,000	1,215,820,000	-	1,215,820,000
Capital	-415,000	81,421,000	1,000,000	82,421,000
Depreciation*	6,852,000	-46,128,000	-	-46,128,000
Total	13,898,000	1,251,113,000	1,000,000	1,252,113,000

*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 change in the resource element of the DEL arises from: administration costs changes resulting from a claim on the reserve of £5,000,000 to allow for the extension of the VAT strategy programme; a transfer of £805,000 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office; virement of £6,430,000 from administration costs to programme expenditure; and programme expenditure changes in respect of a transfer of £1,570,000 from the Home Office to cover additional costs of anti-terrorism work; a transfer of £1,003,000 from the Home Office from the Recovered Assets Incentivisation Fund to cover the costs of a new litigation team; a transfer of £840,000 from the Home Office from the Recovered Assets Incentivisation Fund to cover the costs of new operational asset recovery teams; a transfer of £140,000 to the Home Office in respect of two special projects and Electro Mechanical services; a transfer of £7,000 to the Department for Constitutional Affairs to meet additional penalty costs. The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from: capital expenditure changes in respect of a transfer of £401,000 from the Home Office to cover additional costs of anti-terrorism work; and a transfer of £816,000 to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

As a result of the specified resource DEL changes mentioned in the above paragraph, the administration costs limit has decreased by £2,235,000 from £1,132,722,000 to £1,130,487,000.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Ruth Kelly): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Office for National Statistics DEL will be increased by £1,845,000 from £145,514,000 to £147,359,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £2,295,000 from £139,823,000 to £142,118,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

£'000s

		New DEL
	Change	Voted	Non-voted	Total
Resource	1,845	142,026	-	142,026
Capital	0	19,170	-	19,170
Depreciation*	-	-13,837	-	-13,837
Total	1,845	147,359	-	147,359

*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 the draw down of £2,750,000 administration costs end year flexibility as set out in the Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper (Cm 5884). This is partially offset

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by a transfer of £455,000 in total to other government departments in relation to work to develop the Neighbourhood Statistics programme. The transfers comprise £381,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, £24,000 to the Department for Constitutional Affairs and £50,000 to the Home Office. The change also takes account of Treasury's revised budgeting and

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accounting treatment for income from competitively, or commercially, let research contracts funded from the EU Budget. The effect is to reduce the "Other Current" Budget, which forms part of Resource DEL, by £450,000 to £550,000. The Administration costs limit will be increased by £2,295,000 from £139,823,000 to £142,118,000.

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