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Written Ministerial Statements
Monday 15 November 2004
CABINET OFFICE
Supplementary Estimates
The Minister for the Cabinet Office (Ruth Kelly): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Cabinet Office departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be decreased by £11,159,000 from £250,017,000 to £238,858,000 and the gross administration costs limits will be decreased by £2,102,000 from £219,130,000 to £217,028,000. 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 | -11,159 | 258,005 | 0 | 258,005 |
| Capital | 0 | 31,000 | 0 | 31,000 |
| Depreciation* | 0 | -50,147 | 0 | -50,147 |
| Total | -11,159 | 238,858 | 0 | 238,858 |
*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 reductions due to machinery of Government transfer of shareholder executive to the Department for Trade and Industry of £2,585,000, transfer of £10,057,000 to the Ministry of Defence for funding of the national met programme, end year flexibility drawn of £1,000,000 to fund the "go in, stay in, tune in" public information campaign and net transfers from other government departments of £483,000.
There is no change to the capital element of the DEL.
TREASURY
Supplementary Estimates
The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the H M Customs and Excise departmental expenditure limit will be increased by £75,736,000 from £1,331,872,000 to £1,407,608,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £34,476,000 from £1,184,015,000 to £1,218,491,000. 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 | 71,966 | 1,327,032 | - | 1,327,032 |
| Capital | 3,770 | 79,576 | 1,000 | 80,576 |
| Depreciation* | — | -44,780 | — | -44,780 |
| Total | 75,736 | 1,361,828 | 1,000 | 1,362,828 |
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*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 increases resulting from the take up of £41,914,000 end year flexibility entitlement (EYF) as set out in the public expenditure outturn White Paper (CM6293). This is partially offset by a transfer of £1,645,000 to HM Treasury to meet the costs of the transfer of policy work and virement from administration costs to programme expenditure of £5,793,000; and
programme expenditure changes relating to: the draw down of £25,000,000 to cover additional costs of lorry road user charging, which formed a part of spending review 2004; an award from the efficiency challenge fund of £300,000; transfers from the Home Office to meet additional costs of anti-terrorism work of £2,336,000, funding from the recovered assets incentivisation fund of £4,161,000 to meet operational and legal costs and £40,000 towards the CIDA project. Further there is a transfer to the Home Office of £140,000 in support of two specific projects and electro mechanical services.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from the draw-down of capital EYF amounting to £3,680,000 and a transfer from the Home Office of £90,000 to support anti-terrorism work.
Supplementary Estimates
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Stephen Timms): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, HM Treasury DEL will be increased by £17,115,000 from £225,574,000 to £242,689,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £5,618,000 from £146,891,000 to £152,509,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
*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 £5,618,000 resulting from:
a partial draw down of end year flexibility (eyf) of £98,000 for administration of the Invest to Save Budget (ISB);
a transfer from the Evidence Based Policy Fund (EBPF) of £35,000 for a research project on regional inequalities in the United Kingdom;
a transfer of £5,485,000 from the Inland Revenue and HM Customs and Excise to fund the switch of taxation policy responsibility to HM Treasury as recommended by the O'Donnell review;
a draw down of £300,000 EBPF programme and its subsequent transfer to the Office for National Statistics for a project on the measurement of public sector output as recommended by the Atkinson review. This transfer is DEL neutral for HM Treasury;
a transfer to Home Office of £30,000 programme spend for the GRECO project, which assesses national anti-corruption arrangements;
an increase in A in A programme of £5,900,000 and a matching £5,900,000 increase in spend for the Office of Paymaster General to bring the estimate in line with forecasts;
an increase in A in A programme of £229,000 and a matching £229,000 increase in spend for the Coinage RfR 2, following the sale of scrap metal;
a partial draw down of programme eyf of £3,810,000 for an increase in Bank of England agency payments, to cover restructuring costs of gilt administration;
a partial draw down of programme eyf of £232,000 for resettlement payments to Members of the European Parliament;
an increase in OGC programme spend of £7,800,000, funded by the Efficiency Challenge Fund, as agreed in the 2004 spending review, to be drawn down for use via the Estimates as initiatives are identified and agreed with HM Treasury.
Supplementary Estimates
The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Inland Revenue departmental expenditure limit will be increased by £152,750,000 from £3,205,460,000 to £3,358,210,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £86,282,000 from £2,989,475,000 to £3,075,757,000. 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 | 107,764 | 2,751,476 | 331,418 | 3,082,894 |
| Capital | 44,986 | 275,316 | - | 275,316 |
| Depreciation* | -942 | -152,595 | - | -152,595 |
| Total | 151,318 | 2,874,197 | 331,418 | 3,205,615 |
*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 £90,121,000 administration costs EYF; take up award from the efficiency challenge fund of £20,700,000 programme costs. Additionally, the change relates to minor inter-departmental PES transfers, to HM Treasury reducing administration costs by £3,840,000; and from the Home Office increasing programme costs by £782,000.
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The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from the draw down of capital EYF and other resource EYF, totalling £44,496,000 as set out in the "Public Expenditure Outturn" White Paper (CM6293), and an increase of £490,000 to VGA net costs for impairment.
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