Select Committee on Office of the Deputy Prime Minister: Housing, Planning, Local Government and the Regions Minutes of Evidence

Annex B

END YEAR FLEXIBILITY 2004-05

  The following Tables set out the EYF available at the start of the year (2004-05), what was taken up during the year and what was carried forward into 2005-06 including underspends in 2004-05.

Type of expenditure	Total carried forward from 2004-05 (£m)
Resource Consumption	242.0
Resource Investment	56.6
Capital	102.8
TOTAL	401.40

KEY POINTS

—  EYF is an aggregate of unused EYF from previous years plus underspends in the current year

2004-05

—  The main use of programme EYF in 2004-05 was as follows:

Resource Consumption

£37 million—Fire Services programmes including transitional funding

£51 million—Housing programmes

£30 million—English Partnerships

£21.5 million—Civil Resilience programmes

£21 million—Regional Development Agencies

£9.5 million—Regional Assemblies

£3 million—E-Planning

Resource Investment

£19 million—Housing programmes

Capital

£15 million—European Regional Development Fund

£12 million—English Partnerships

£9 million—Housing programmes

£5 million—Coalfields Enterprise Fund

£4 million—New Dimension

£2 million—E-Planning

£2 million—New Ventures Fund

£1.4 million—Fire Smoke Alarms

—  In addition £36 million administration EYF was drawn down to meet the planned expenditure of the Office

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Prepared 26 January 2006