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Spring Supplementary Estimate
The Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Mr. Jack Straw): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £185,034,000 from £1,818,884,000 to £2,003,918,000. The administration budget will be increased by £29,439,000 from £796,238,000 to £825,677,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource | 176,407 | 1,999,224 | 6,713 | 2,005,937 |
| Capital | 13,719 | 135,697 | 1,000 | 136,697 |
| Depreciation* | -5,092 | -138,716 | 0 | -138,716 |
| Total | 185,034 | 1,996,205 | 7,713 | 2,003,918 |
*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:
Request for Resources 1 (RfRl) Administration
I. Reserve claim of £1,386,000 in respect of Overseas Pricing Mechanism.
II. Take up of £5,000,000 End Year Flexibility (EYF) entitlement.
III. Take up of £23,092,000 Non-Cash End Year Flexibility (EYF) entitlement of which £20,000,000 is impairments DUP and £3,092,000 is administration non cash.
IV. Budget Cover transfer from the Cabinet office of £61,000 for the Parliamentary Counsel Office. Budget Cover transfer to the Security and Intelligence Agencies (SIA) of £100,000 in respect of Planned Activity.
I. Reserve claims of £8,000,000 from the Emergency Disaster Reserve, £10,500,000 from the reserve to pay for costs incurred from the Tsunami.
II. Reserve claims of £10,000,000 for the international organisations cost sharing agreement, £12,600,000 for Consular premium collected in the UK and £1,407,000 for the British Council Overseas Pricing Mechanism.
III. Transfer of £8,500,000 from RfR2 for the Afghan Delivery Plan.
IV. Budget Cover transfer from the Home Office, £4,000,000 in respect of the Afghan Delivery Plan
V. Draw down of £4,000,000 and £12,000,000 from the Departmental Unallocated Provision
VI. Transfer to the DEL Reserve of £4,349,000 in respect of the Overseas Pricing Mechanism.
VII. Transfer of £1,500,000 to RfR 2 to meet Conflict Prevention activity costs in Iraq.
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VIII. PES transfer to the SIA of £875,000 for Planned Programme Activity
IX. PES transfer to the MOD of £2,100,000 for overseas Programme funding.
X. Draw Down from the Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) of £20,000,000 for Impairments
I. An increase in income and expenditure of £10,000,000 due to an increase in sales into wider markets.
II. A non cash to near cash switch of £20,000,000
III. An increase in income and expenditure of £14,400,000 relating to Consular activity and income. An increase in income and expenditure of £39,100,000 relating to increased Visa activity and income.
Request for Resources 2 (RfR2)
I. Draw down of £78,533,000 from the Africa Peacekeeping Main Estimate Provision.
II. Draw down of £92,124,000 from the Global Peacekeeping Main Estimate Provision of which £64,000,000 is transferred to the Ministry of Defence.
III. Take up of £6,812,000 EYF entitlement from the Global Conflict Prevention Pool.
IV. Draw down of £10,000,000 DUP from the Global Conflict Prevention Pool.
V. Transfer from RfRl; £1,500,000 to meet Conflict Prevention activity costs in Iraq.
VI. Budget cover transfer from Global Conflict Prevention pool of £334,000 to the SIA, £2,000,000 to DfID and £3,200,000 to the MOD.
VII. Budget cover transfer to DfID from the Africa Conflict Prevention Pool of £150,000 for agreed programme activity.
VIII. A transfer of £8,500,000 to RfRl for the Afghan Delivery Plan of which £2,500,000 comes from the Africa Peacekeeping provision and £6,000,000 from the Global Peacekeeping provision.
I. Budget cover transfer from the Home Office of £3,359,000 for capital costs incurred as part of UK Visas Biometrics programme.
II. Claim on the DEL reserve for £360,000 in respect of the Overseas Pricing Mechanism
III. Take up of £10,000,000 EYF entitlement.
I. An increase in income and expenditure of £3,000,000 relating to the asset recycling agreement.
HEALTH
Spring Supplementary Estimate
The Secretary of State for Health (Ms Patricia Hewitt):
Subject to the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department of Health's element of the Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be increased by £112,322,000 from £78,591,189,000 to £78,703,511,000 and the Administration Cost Limit will be increased by £484,000 from £247,629,000 to
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£248,113,000. The Food Standards Agency DEL will be increased by £951,000 from £144,424,000 to £145,375,000. The overall DEL including the Food
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Standards Agency will be increased by £113,273,000 from £78,735,613,000 to £78,847,886,000. The impact on resource and capital are set out in the following table.
*Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL since the capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
The Department of Health DEL has increased by £112,322,000 to reflect take up of £200,000,000 capital end year flexibility as announced in the public expenditure white paper (Cm 6639) July 2005 and £1,461,000 from the invest to save budget for social care projects. In addition, transfers have been agreed with the DHSS Northern Ireland of £554,000 for out of area treatments and from the Cabinet Office of £484,000 (administration costs) for services of the Parliamentary counsel. These increases are offset by transfers to the Department for Education and Skills of £18,854,000 mainly for capital building programmes and pension costs; a transfer to the Department for Environment and Rural Affairs of £60,000,000 for a contribution towards the over thirty months scheme; to the Department for Constitutional Affairs of £1,500,000 capital associated with the transfer of the mental health review tribunals; to the Scottish Executive of £4,140,000 for out of area treatments; to the National Assembly for Wales of £5,684,000 mainly for out of area treatments and cross border flows.
The Department of Health's administration cost limit has increased by £484,000 from £247,629,000 to £248,113,000 as detailed above.
The changes to the Food Standards Agency resource element of the Departmental Expenditure Limit arises from an increase in MHS gross cost of £5,000,000 offset by a similar increase in the income limit. Due to this neutral change the Programme DEL has been increased by £1,000 to ensure there is a token Supplementary amount to be voted.
The changes to the Food Standards Agency capital element of the Departmental Expenditure Limit arises from increased capital expenditure of £950,000 for the renewal of IT infrastructure and strengthening IT contingency arrangements.
HOME DEPARTMENT
Spring Supplementary Estimate
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department (Paul Goggins): Plans to change the Charity Commission's Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) and administration budget for 2005–06.
Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Charity Commission DEL will be increased by £250,000 from £32,607,000 to £32,857,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £250,000 from £32,153,000 to £32,403,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Resource | 250 | 32,403 | 0 | 32,403 |
| Capital | 0 | 1,604 | 0 | 1,604 |
| Depreciation* | 0 | -1,150 | 0 | -1,150 |
| Total | 250 | 32,857 | 0 | 32,857 |
*Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from 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: take up of £250,000 Efficiency Challenge Fund (ECF) monies to assist with the delivery of efficiency targets.
The increases will be funded by the take up of ECF monies allocated in the SR04 settlement.
The Secretary of State for the Home Department (Mr. Charles Clarke): Plans of changes to the Departmental Expenditure Limits ("DEL") and Administration Budget for 2005–06.
Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Home Office's Departmental Expenditure Limits for 2005–06 will be increased by £30,348,000 from £13,645,786,000 to £13,676,134,000 and the Administration Budget will be increased by £833,000 from £704,526,000 to £705,359,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on Resources and Capital is 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.
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