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(f) £14,000,000 to Gypsy and Traveller's Sites;
(g) £384,190,000 to the Regional Housing Pot;
(h) £500,000 to the Liveability Fund;
(i) £17,840,000 from Departmental Unallocated Provision comprising of £3,790,000 to Groundwork; £3,600,000 to LEGI; £5,450,000 for Local Area Agreements and £5,000,000 for Combined Universities;
(j) £1,320,000 to the Coalfields Regeneration Trust;
(k) £1,230,000 to Fire Services.
(2) The Department for Communities and Local Government (Local Government) DEL will be increased by £62,655,000 from £22,741,021,000 to £22,803,676,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
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| New DEL | ||||
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| *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 £43,519,000 comprising
(a) £8,000,000 for Capacity Building;
(b) £519,000 for Local Government on Line;
(c) £35,000,000 for Private Finance Initiative.
(ii) a net transfer of £900,000 from Request for Resources (RfR 1) comprising of a transfer of £1,500,000 to Best Value Inspection (RfR2) from Fire Services (RfRl) and £600,000 from Capacity Building (RfR2) to Fire Services (RFR1).
(iii) Draw down of £1,602,000 from the Invest to Save Budget for several projects relating to bids for Rounds 7 and 8.
(iv) an increase in cash receipt of £308,000 with a corresponding increase in DEL cover for the Standards Board.
(v) a net transfer of £4,524,000 from voted to non- voted provision comprising £2,371,000 from Valuation Services; £219,000 from Local Governance and £1,934,000 from the Bellwin programme.
(vi) The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from a take up of End Year Flexibility of £16,634,000 for Local Government on Line.
Culture, Media and Sport
Departmental Expenditure Limits and Administrative Costs Limits for 2006-07
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport (Tessa Jowell): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any Supplementary Estimate, the Department for Culture Media and Sport’s Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be increased by £93,217,000 from £1,714,786,000 to £1,808,003,000 and the administration cost limit will increase by £4,826,000 from £48,444,000 to £53,270,000. Within the DEL change the impact on resource and capital are set out in the following table:
Departmental Expenditure Limits and Administration Budgets
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
Take up of £12,400,000 End Year flexibility: (£100,000) Community radio (£2,000,000) British Library; (£500,000) National Museum of Science and Industry (£6,600,000) Arts Council of England; (£1,200,000) UK Film Council; and (£2,000,000) Gambling Commission.
Transfers from other Government Departments of: £2,130,000 from Department for Education and Skills for Strategic Commissioning; and £340,000 from Cabinet Office to cover baseline costs of the Parliamentary Council.
Transfers to other Government Departments of: £120,000 to DCLG for Minister for Women post; £66,000 to DCLG for contribution to severance costs of Government Office review staff and £7,700,000 to Home Office to cover the transfer of responsibility for policing the Royal Parks.
Grants from the Invest to Save budget allocation Resource £871,000 to Museums, Galleries and Libraries £1,413,000 to Arts Council of England, and £142,000 to English Heritage.
Agreed Reserve Claim of £1,000,000 for the Humanitarian Assistance Unit.
The administration cost limit has increased by £4,826,000 from £48,444,000 to £53,270,000. This is as a result of transfers to Cabinet Office and DCLG totalling £154,000 detailed above; an agreed drawdown of £2,300,000 non-cash Departmental Unallocated Provision for the Olympic Executive; take up of £1,700,000 End Year Flexibility; and transfers to and from programme costs totalling £672,000.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from:
Take up of End-Year Flexibility of £52,647,000: (£3,000,000) for Capital administration; (£280,000) for purchase of flagpoles; (£6,740,000) British Library; (£2,000,000) Imperial War Museum; (£9,485,000) British Museum; (£3,000,000) National Maritime Museum; (£2,557,000) National Museums and Galleries on Merseyside; (£3,531,000) National Museum of Science and Industry; (£200,000) Wallace Collection; (£200,000) Sir John Soane's Museum; (£18,400,000) Community Club Development Project; (£740,000) The Royal Household for Occupied Royal Palaces; (£1,200,000) English Heritage; (£1,304,000) Gambling Commission and (£10,000) National Lottery Commission.
A transfer of £24,300,000 from the DCLG for Olympic costs.
Grants from the Invest to Save budget capital allocation £2,662,000 to Museums, Galleries and Libraries, £281,000 to Arts Council of England, and £37,000 to English Heritage.
An agreed Reserve Claim of £1,000,000 Capital for the Queen Mother's Memorial.
Defence
Reserves Mental Health Programme
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Defence (Derek Twigg): In May 2006, the then Veterans Minister announced that the Ministry of Defence would later this year be introducing an enhanced post-operational mental healthcare programme for recently demobilised reservists. He undertook to make a further announcement to confirm the details of the service.
I am now pleased to be able to confirm that the programme, to be known as the “Reservists Mental Health Programme (RMHP)”, will become operational with effect from 21 November 2006.
The programme is open to any current or former member of the UK Volunteer and Regular Reserves who has been demobilised since 1 January 2003 following an overseas operational deployment, and who believes that the deployment may have adversely affected their mental health.
An individual who thinks that they are eligible, and who would like an assessment, should ask their GP for a referral. This is the preferred method of contact, to ensure that both the GP and the RMHP assessors are kept aware of all the factors affecting the individual’s health. Referrals from civilian psychiatric services are also accepted but the patient's GP is to be kept informed. In exceptional circumstances, individuals can contact the assessment centre directly. The programme is being co-ordinated by the Reserves Training and Mobilisation Centre (RTMC), Chilwell, Nottinghamshire.
Eligible reservists will be offered a mental health assessment. This will be conducted at the RTMC by appropriately qualified members of the Defence Medical Services (DMS). If an individual is assessed as having an operationally/related mental health problem that is amenable to treatment by the RMHP, then they will be offered out-patient treatment by the DMS. This will be available at one of MoDs 15 Departments of Community Mental Health in the UK, who will offer treatment in consultation with the individual's GP. The programme will be monitored in order to ensure that it meets the needs of demobilised reservists. The programme will run for an initial period of three years, at which point there will be a formal review to decide whether it should continue, or be modified.
Further details of the Programme are available at the RTMC website www.army.mod.uk/rtmc/rmhp.htm.
The Reserve Forces continue to make a vital contribution to the ongoing success of military operations. In return, we have a duty of care to them, and this new programme is an important enhancement to the medical services that we provide.
Votes A 2006-07
The Secretary of State for Defence (Des Browne):
The Ministry of Defence Supplementary Estimate Votes A 2006-07 will be laid before the House on 21 November as HC18. This outlines an amendment to
the maximum numbers of personnel to be maintained for Service in the Armed Forces during financial year 2006-07.
Copies of these reports will be placed in the Library of the House.
Winter Supplementary Estimates 2006-07
The Secretary of State for Defence (Des Browne): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Ministry of Defence Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) will be increased by £1,592,272,000 from £32,018,905,000 to £33,611,177,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on Resources and Capital are as set out in the following table:
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
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