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DEPUTY PRIME MINISTER
Supplementary Estimates
The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. John Prescott): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's departmental expenditure limits for 2004–05 will change as follows:
(1) The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's main programmes DEL will be increased by £2,348,455,000 from £7,129,829,000 to £9,478,284,000 and the administration costs limit will be reduced by £8,822,000 from £354,805,000 to £345,983,000. 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:
(i) take up of end-year flexibility of £110,412,000 comprising:
(a) £800,000 for Ordnance Survey Trading Fund;
(b) £1,350,000 for Sustainable Communities;
(c) £306,000 from the Invest to Save Budget for Fire Services;
(d) £11,439,000 for Fire Services programme expenditure;
(e) £21,506,000 for Civil Resilience programmes;
(f) £5,000,000 for Regional Policy programme (Regional Chambers);
(g) £14,632,000 for non-voted Housing Corporation;
(h) £5,000,000 for non-voted English Partnerships/ Urban Regeneration Agency;
(i) £25,000,000 for non-voted Commission for New Towns.
(j) £25,379,000 to cover the work of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister.
(ii) draw down from the Reserve of £98,752,000 comprising:
(a) £77,000 for Housing programme expenditure;
(b) £420,000 for Building Regulations;
(c) £3,978,000 for Other Growth Areas;
(d) £2,387,000 for Fire Services programme expenditure;
(e) £8,495,000 for Civil Resilience programmes:
(f) £72,851,000 for the Communities Plan;
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(g) £8,544,000 for European Regional Development Fund;
(h) £2,000,000 for Regional Policy programme (Regional Assemblies).
(iii) draw down of £19,083,000 in advance from the European Regional Development Fund PES Pool for the European Regional Development Fund;
(iv) draw down of £1,500,000 from the Treasury Efficiency Savings Challenge Fund for Procurement Efficiency and Social Housing;
(v) a net transfer of £2,525,000 to other government departments, comprising:
From other Government Departments:
(a) £50,000 from the Home Office for Building regulations programme;
(b) £100,000 for non-voted Housing Corporation from Department for Transport.
Administration Costs (Central ODPM)
(c) £557,000 from the Cabinet Office to cover the work of Parliamentary Counsel;
(d) £370,000 from Cabinet Office for the transfer of Internal Audit work.
Administration Costs (Government Offices)
(e) £1,798,000 from the Department for Education and Skills. (£1,598,000 for Local Public Service Agreements and £200,000 to cover other work done by Government Offices);
(f) £44,000 from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to cover work on the Voluntary Community Sector;
(g) £700,000 from Department of Trade and Industry for work on UK Trade & Industry.
To other Government Departments:
(h) £700,000 to the Home Office from the New Ventures Fundprogramme;
(i) £1,477,000 to Department for Work and Pensions from the New Deal for Communities programme;
(j) £3,208,000 to Welsh Assembly for Machinery of Government changes (£1,827,000 from Fire Services and £1,381,000 from Civil Resilience);
Administration Costs (Central ODPM)
(k) £221,000 to Department for Education and Skills for Local Public Service Agreements;
(l) £174,000 to Department of Health for Local Public Service Agreements;
(m) £65,000 to the Home Office for Local Public Service Agreements;
(n) £65,000 to the Department for Work and Pensions for Local Public Service Agreements;
(o) £60,000 to the Department for Transport for Local Public Service Agreements;
(p) £60,000 to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs for Local Public Service Agreements;
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(q) £35,000 to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport for Local Public Service Agreements;
(r) £79,000 to the Department for Transport for the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee.
(vi) an increase in receipts of £120,709,000 offsetting increases in provision of £24,000,000 for Housing, £200,000 for Ordnance Survey, £4,000 for Planning, £3,015,000 for the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency; £1,890,000 for Fire Services, £580,000 for Civil Resilience, £64,139,000 for European Regional Development Fund; £16,881,000 for administration costs, and £10,000,000 for non voted English Partnerships;
(vii) an increase in receipts of £10,000,000 for non-voted English Partnerships;
(viii) a transfer of £1,573,000,000 from Annually Managed Expenditure to Departmental Expenditure Limits for the Supporting People programme;
(ix) a transfer of £253,000 from resource consumption to capital for Research;
(x) a transfer of £396,678,000 from resource investment to capital comprising £134,947,000 for the Communities Plan; £62,958,000 towards the capital costs of acquiring surplus NHS land, £1,960,000 for Civil Resilience; £3,452,000 for Planning; £750,000 for non voted Housing Corporation; £368,000 within non-voted Other Growth Areas; £186,386,000 within the Sustainable Communities programme; £5,525,000 for voted Other Housing and Homelessness from non-voted Housing Corporation (of which £3,668,000 for Regional Housing Pots and £1,857,000 increase in provision) and £332,000 to voted Growth Areas from non-voted Other Growth Areas;
(xi) a transfer of £230,118,000 from capital to resource investment comprising £5,200,000 to fund New Dimension Search & Rescue training rigs, £15,499,000 within non-voted section for Housing Corporation, £182,000,000 for Large Scale Voluntary Transfers from non-voted Arms Length Management Organisations to voted Housing and Homelessness and £27,419,000 for European Regional Development Fund;
(xii) a net transfer of £11,684,000 from voted to non-voted provision comprising:
(a) a transfer of £16,785,000, to voted Housing programmes from non-voted comprising £14,000,000 for Housing Action Trusts, £1,030,000 for Black & Ethnic Minority Registered Social Landlords, £755,000 for Homelessness and £1,000,000 for Starter Homes Initiatives;
(b) a transfer of £12,863,000 to other voted sections from non-voted Housing Corporation;
(c) a transfer of £2,835,000 to voted Sustainable Communities from non-voted Housing Corporation;
(d) a transfer of £2,500,000 to voted Growth Areas from non-voted Other Growth Areas;
(e) a transfer of £144,000 to voted Sustainable Communities from non-voted South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA);
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(f) a transfer of £9,893,000 from non-voted resource investment to voted resource investment comprising £9,093,000 for European Regional Development Fund and £800,000 for Supporting People;
(g) a transfer of £800,000 from voted Housing to non-voted for Housing Corporation;
(h) a transfer of £8,023,000 from other voted sections to non-voted Housing Corporation;
(i) a transfer of £30,000,000 from Planning to non-voted English Partnerships;
(j) a transfer of £745,000 from voted Growth Areas to non-voted Other Growth Areas;
(k) a transfer of £5,800,000 from voted Sustainable Communities to non-voted South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA);
(l) a transfer of £500,000 from voted Sustainable Communities to non-voted Thames Gateway (Thurrock);
(m) a transfer of £10,000,000 from voted Thames Gateway to non-voted Thames Gateway Housing Corporation;
(n) a transfer of £800,000 from voted Black and Ethnic Minority Registered Social Landlords to non-voted Housing Corporation.
(xiii) As a result of the changes to Request for Resources 1, The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's administration provision will be reduced by £8,531,000 from £357,932,000 to £349,401,000 after taking account of the transfer of £36,912,000 from administration DEL to programme DEL in respect of the reclassification of the Planning Inspectorate's expenditure.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from:
(xiv) take up of end-year flexibility of £42,066,000 comprising:
(a) £6,045,000 draw down of Capital Modernisation Fund (£2,325,000 for Pilot Lettings, £3,720,000 for New Dimension;
(b) £5,000,000 for the Coalfields Enterprise Fund;
(c) £2,274,000 for the New Ventures Fund;
(d) £1,400,000 for Smoke Alarms;
(e) £15,305,000 for European Regional Development Fund;
(f) £12,042,000 for non-voted English Partnerships in respect of the costs of acquiring surplus National Health Service land.
(xv) draw down of £17,126,000 in advance from the European Regional Development Fund PES Pool for the European Regional Development Fund;
(xvi) an increase in receipts of £19,054,000. offsetting increases in provision of £3,600,000 for Housing programme, £5,012,000 for European Development Fund and £10,442,000 for non-voted housing Corporation;
(xvii) a transfer of £3,259,000 to other government departments, comprising £1,045,000 to Department for Transport to cover ODPM's share of the costs of joint
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capital projects; £5,214,000 to Welsh Assembly in respect of Machinery of Government Changes (of which £1,513,000 is from voted Civil Resilience and £3,701,000 from non-voted section) and £3,000,000 from the Home Office for non-voted Housing Corporation;
(xviii) a transfer of £253,000 from resource consumption to capital for Research;
(xix) a transfer of £396,678,000 from Resource Investment to Capital comprising of £134,947,000 for the Communities Plan; £62,958,000 towards the capital costs of acquiring surplus NHS land, £1,960,000 for Civil Resilience; £3,452,000 for Planning; £750,000 for non-voted Housing Corporation; £368,000 for non-voted Other Growth Areas; £186,386,000 within the Sustainable Communities programme; £5,525,000 for voted Other Housing and Homelessness from non-voted Housing Corporation (of which £3,668,000 for Regional Housing Pots and £1,857,000 increase in provision) and £332,000 to voted Growth Areas from non-voted Other Growth Areas;
(xx) a transfer of £230,118,000 from capital to resource investment comprising £5,200,000 to fund New Dimension Search & Rescue training rigs, £15,499,000 within non-voted section for Housing Corporation, £182,000,000 for Large Scale Voluntary Transfers from non-voted Arms Length Management Organisations to voted Housing and Homelessness and £27,419,000 for European Regional Development Fund;
(xxi) an increase in provision of £223,500,000 for the non-voted Supported Capital Expenditure Programme;
(xxii) an increase in provision of £278,800,000 as a result of classification changes for non-voted English Partnerships;
(xxiii) Within the capital element of the DEL there is a net transfer of £52,823,000 from voted to non-voted provision comprising:
(a) £13,442,000 from non-voted Housing Corporation to voted Planning;
(b) £3,796,000 from non-voted English Partnerships to voted Sustainable Communities programme;
(c) £45,061,000 from voted Sustainable Communities programme to non-voted South East of England Development Agency (SEEDA) (£41,061,000) and non-voted East of England Development Agency (EEDA) (£4,000,000);
(d) £25,000,000 from voted Thames Gateway to non-voted English Partnerships.
(2) The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Local Government DEL will be increased by £21,480,000 from £43,767,155,000 to £43,788,635,000. 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 | 21,480 | 43,311,588 | 104,613 | 43,416,201 |
| Capital | 363,484 | 8,950 | 372,434 | |
| Depreciation | -119 | -913 | 1,580 | 667 |
| Total | 21,361 | 43,674,159 | 115,143 | 43,789,302 |
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
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(i) take up of end-year flexibility of £21,300,000 for Private Finance Initiatives;
(ii) a transfer of £180,000 from Department of Health to support a local government franchising pilot;
(iii) a transfer of £98,000,000 from voted Capacity Building programme to non-voted Standards Board.
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