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NORTHERN IRELAND

Supplementary Estimates

The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Paul Murphy): Subject to parliamentary approval the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) will be taking a 2004–05 winter supplementary estimate. The effect this will have is to increase the NIO's DEL by £29,789,000 from £1,206,401,000 to £1,236,190,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
ResourcesCapital
ChangeNew DELOf which: votedNon-votedChangeNew DELOf which: votedNon-voted
3,9811,153,454333,295820,80825,80882,73635,66147,075

The change in the resource element of the DEL by £3,981,000 arises from the draw-down of £3,996,000 end year flexibility and the surrender of a PES transfer of £15,000 administration to security and intelligence agencies, to contribute towards administrative funding.

The extra resource costs cover a range of areas within the Department such as prisons, the Bloody Sunday inquiry, forensic science, central administration and the police service.

The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from the draw-down of £25,808,000 end year flexibility.

The extra capital costs cover a range of areas within the Department such as central administration, criminal justice and prisons.

PRIME MINISTER

Supplementary Estimates

The Prime Minister (Mr. Tony Blair): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Security and Intelligence Agencies' departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be
 
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increased by £37,811,000 from £1,274,329,000 to £1,312,140,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £18,787,000 from £584,730,000 to £603,517,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the table:
£'000

New DEL
ChangeVotedNon-votedTotal
Resource25,750,0001,122,050,00015,450,0001,137,500,000
Capital12,061,000190,062,0006,000,000196,062,000
Depreciation*-140,967,000-140,967,000
Total37,811,0001,453,079,00021,450,0001,474,529,000




* 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:

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

SCOTLAND

Supplementary Estimates

The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr. Alistair Darling): Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the Scotland departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £428,550,000 from £21,575,971,000 to £22,004,521,000.

The DEL increase takes account of the following routine adjustments to the Scottish Executive provision: the take-up of end-year flexibility (EYF) by the Scottish Executive amounting to £500,000,000.

The DEL increase also includes the following transfers between the Scottish Executive and other Government Departments, amounting to a net decrease of £71,450,000. These are:


 
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The increases will be offset by interdepartmental transfers as detailed above or charged to the DEL reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.

TRADE AND INDUSTRY

Supplementary Estimates

The Secretary of State for Trade and Industry (Ms Patricia Hewitt): Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Department of Trade and Industry's DEL will be increased by £527,542,000 from £4,966,261,000 to £5,493,803,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £7,958,000 from £428,847,000 to £436,805,000.

Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:
£000s

New DEL
ChangeVotedNon-votedTotal
Resource486,5091,049,6954,245,7155,295,410
Capital41,033-94,664293,057198,393
Depreciation*0-20,841-93,159-114,000
Total527,542934,1904,445,6135,379,803




*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 (all RfR1) arises from:


 
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(xxiv) reclassification of £11,000,000 from voted expenditure to non-voted expenditure, to reflect funding of Enterprise Fund capital grants via Regional Development Agencies;

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


 
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Non-voted

There is also utilisation of £185,000,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement in respect of payments in relation to British Energy liabilities, an increase of £77,169,000 to reflect the transfer of non-voted, non-cash RDA budgets from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, utilisation of £300,000 from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the Equal Opportunities Commission, and utilisation of £2,400,000 resource and £69,642,000 capital grants from the unused balance of the Department's End-Year Flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure of the Regional Development Agencies.

Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Main Estimate

There is also a transfer of £22,000,000 to the Department for Work and Pensions in relation to European Regional Development Fund expenditure, in repayment of the Department's overspend on this activity in 2003–04 that was funded by the Department for Work and Pensions.

The change in the capital element of the DEL (all RfR1) arises from:

Non-voted

There is also utilisation of £2,640,000 from the unused balance of the Department's end-year flexibility entitlement for non-voted expenditure by Regional Development Agencies.


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