Written Ministerial Statements
Tuesday 20 February 2007
Treasury
HM Treasury: DEL and Administration Budget Changes
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (John Healey): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, HM Treasury resource departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be reduced by £6,939,000 from £247,599,000 to £240,660,000. The administration budget will be reduced by £4,465,000 from £167,794,000 to £163,329,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on the voted and non-voted elements and near cash are as set out in the following table:
| Changes | New DEL | ||||
| Voted | Non-voted | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| (*)The total of ‘Administration Budget’ and ‘Near cash in RDEL’ figures may well be greater than total resource DEL, due to the definitions overlapping. | |||||
| (**)Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets | |||||
| (***)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 reduction in the resource element of the DEL arises from a Machinery of Government change transfer of £6,940,000 following the transfer of budgetary responsibility for the salaries and pensions of UK members of the European Parliament from the Treasury to the Cabinet Office, to align with the policy responsibility.
The net reduction in the Administration Budget arises from a transfer of £4,465,000 from RfR 1: “Raising the rate of sustainable growth and achieving rising prosperity and a better quality of life, with economic and employment opportunities for all” to RfR 2: “Cost effective management of the supply of coins and actions to protect the integrity of coinage” to partially offset an increase in programme spending due to increased metal prices and increased demand for coinage.
HM Revenue and Customs: Delegated Expenditure Limits and Administration Budgets
The Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo):
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the HM Revenue and Customs departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £98,509,000
from £4,858,924,000 to £4,957,433,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £31,230,000 from £4,492,263,000 to £4,523,493,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| Changes | New DEL | ||||
| Voted | Non-voted | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| (*)The total of ‘Administration Budget’ and ‘Near cash in RDEL’ figures may well be greater than total resource DEL, figures may well be greater than total resource DEL, due to the definition overlapping. | |||||
| (**)Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets | |||||
| (***)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. | |||||
Resource Change: Admin (total increase of £31,230,000)
Voted: total increase of £91,304,000.
(i) £60,074,000 Department Unallocated Provision from non-voted to voted administration costs to support on-going merger costs and to drive forward the modernisation programme.
(ii) £38,000,000 non cash administration costs End Year Flexibility (EYF), as announced in the 2005-06 Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper (Cm6883).
(iii) £35,109,000 transfer of administration costs to programme expenditure, of which £11,000,000 relates to a reclassification of some legal costs.
(iv) £30,000,000 Reserve claim in respect of the expansion of call centre capacity.
(v) A Machinery of Government change to the Home Office in respect of Serious Organised Crime Agency funding amounting to £1,445,000 in near cash administration costs and £216,000 in non-cash administration costs.
Non-voted: total decrease of £60,074,000.
(i) £60,074,000 Department Unallocated Provision from non-voted to voted administration costs to support on-going merger costs and to drive forward the modernisation programme.
Resource Change: Programme (total increase of £36,366,000)
Voted: total increase of £52,957,000.
(i) £35,109,000 transfer of administration costs to programme expenditure, of which £11,000,000 relates to the reclassification of some legal costs.
(ii) A reduction of £16,277,000 to voted programme receipts met from a commensurate reduction in non-voted programme expenditure. This is a neutral DEL change.
(iii) £1,500,000 reclassified as programme expenditure from capital DEL in respect of the Government Secure Zone.
(iv) £168,000 programme expenditure from the Department for Finance and Personnel in respect of the aggregates levy.
(v) A Machinery of Government change to the Home Office in respect of Serious Organised Crime Agency funding amounting to £97,000 in programme expenditure.
Non-voted: total decrease of £16,591,000
(i) A reduction of £16,277,000 to voted programme receipts met from a commensurate reduction in non-voted programme expenditure. This is a neutral DEL change.
(ii) £314,000 transfer to DWP in respect of the National Insurance Fund provision.
Capital Change (total increase of £30,913,000)
Voted: total increase of £34,652,000
(i) £30,602,000 transferred from resource to help deliver major investment in information technology and business systems infrastructure.
(ii) £3,739,000 non-voted Department Unallocated Provision transferred to voted capital DEL to help deliver major investment in information technology and business systems infrastructure.
(iii) £1,500,000 reclassified as programme expenditure from capital DEL in respect of the Government Secure Zone.
(iv) A Machinery of Government change to the Home Office in respect of Serious Organised Crime Agency funding amounting to £289,000.
(v) £2,100,000 administration costs, as announced in the 2005-06 Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper (Cm6883) vired into capital.
Non-voted: total decrease of £3,739,000
(i) £3,739,000 non-voted from Department Unallocated Provision to help deliver major investment in information technology and business systems infrastructure.
Office for National Statistics : DEL and Administration Budget Changes
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (John Healey): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Office for National Statistics’ departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £28,279,000 from £196,203,000 to £224,482,000, and the administration budget will be increased by £22,993,000 from £168,423,000 to £191,416,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
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