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A transfer of £381,000 to the Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (OFSTED) to take on the role of the former Adult Learning Inspectorate.
Technical adjustment to move £1,234,000 from voted to match departmental capital DEL with agreed Comprehensive Spending Review aggregates.
A technical adjustment to move £2,981,000 to voted capital DEL to match agreed Comprehensive Spending Review aggregates.
Following the machinery of government changes, a transfer of £43,450,000 to DIUS.
Following the machinery of government changes, a transfer of £1,400,000 from the Home Office for the Respect programme.
Reclassification of £3,720,000 from administration costs to programme expenditure for the Academy programme.
A transfer of £549,000 from the Cabinet Office for the Parliamentary Council Office.
Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills
Following the machinery of government changes a transfer of £485,000 from the Ministry of Justice for the inspection of the Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service.
A transfer of £15,924,000 from DCSF for inspection services relating to work-based learning and training and adult community learning.
A transfer of £381,000 from DCSF to meet IT and accommodation costs associated with inspection services relating to work-based learning and training and adult community learning.
Following the machinery of government changes a transfer of £485,000 from the Ministry of Justice for the inspection of the Children and Families Court Advisory and Support Service.
EU Youth Council
The Minister for Children, Young People and Families (Beverley Hughes): The Deputy UK Permanent Representative, Anne Lambert, will attend the Youth Council on 16 November. The agenda items are as follows:
Ministers will be asked to adopt a Resolution on implementing common objectives for voluntary activities of young people. The Resolution reflects one of the thematic priorities of the ongoing Open Method of Coordination for youth and also contributes to the joint Presidency priorities for 2007-08 of better social and professional integration of young people. The UK is broadly in favour of this document as it currently stands and particularly supports its emphasis on the positive contribution many young people make to society.
Ministers are expected to agree Conclusions on a transversal approach to youth policy. The Conclusions call for a more cross-cutting, mainstreaming approach to youth policy across education and employment in the context of the Lisbon Agenda. The UK supports this approach.
There will be an exchange of views on better consideration of youth issues in the implementation of the Lisbon strategy and implementing the European Youth Pact. The UK believes that the Youth Pact is best implemented through the National Reform Programmes and is anxious to avoid any additional burdens around youth-specific reporting.
Communities and Local Government
Departmental Expenditure
The Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government (Hazel Blears): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department for Communities and Local Government's Departmental Expenditure Limits for 2007-08 will change as follows:
1. The Department for Communities and Local Government's Main Programmes DEL will be increased by £162,822,000 from £10,211,203,000 to £10,374,025,000 and the administration budget will also be increased by £5,245,000 from £290,762,000 to £296,007,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| £000 | |||||
| Change | New DEL | ||||
| Voted | Non-voted | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| (1) The total of ‘Administration budget' and ‘Near-cash in resource DEL' figures may well be greater than total resource DEL due to the definitions overlapping. (2) Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets (3) 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 £49,894,000 comprising :
(a) £1,476,000 from the Invest to Save Budget comprising £463,000 for a project for Homelessness; £682,000 for the Transactional European Regional Development Fund and State- Aid project and £331,000 for the Cheshire Project for Fire Services
(b) £1,048,000 for Home Buying and Selling;
(c) £2,015,000 for Procurement Efficiency and Social Housing programme;
(d) £4,000,000 for Safer and Stronger Communities Fund;
(e) £6,500,000 for the non voted Commission for Equality and Human Rights (CEHR) start up costs, The money is subsequently to be transferred to the Government Equalities Office;
(f) £8,265,000 for New Deal for Communities;
(g) £382,000 for Disabled Facilities Grant;
(h) £13,390,000 for Local Area Agreements;
(i) £9,818,000 to fund staff early exits in the central Department and the Government Offices,
(j) £3,000,000 for central administration costs to cover the work of the Department for Communities and Local Government.
(ii) a transfer of £1,700,000 from Fire Publicity- (Main DEL) Request for Resources (RfR 1) to Best Value Inspection (Local Government DEL -RfR2) to support Audit Commission Comprehensive Performance Assessment Inspection work on Fire and Rescue Authorities.
(iii) a transfer of £10,000.000 to Resource from Capital for flood recovery.
(iv) a net transfer of £60,704,000 to other Government Departments, comprising:
To Other Government Departments
(a) £62,949,000 to reflect Machinery of Government Changes moving funding for the Commission for Equality and Human Rights and other Equalities functions to the Government Equalities Office (GEO).
Administration Costs (Central Department)
(b) £4,526,000 to reflect Machinery of Government Changes comprising £641,000 to the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (DBERR) for regional policy administrative functions and £3,885,000 to the Government Equalities Office for Equalities functions.
From Other Government Departments
Administration Costs (Central Department)
(c) £806,000 from the former Deputy Prime Minister's Office to cover staff transferring back to the Department;
(d) £538,000 to reflect the transfer of £125,000 from the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform for outstanding staff and accommodation costs from previous Machinery of Government changes and £413,000 from the Cabinet Office for the work of Parliamentary Counsel.
Administration Costs (Government Offices)
(e) £624,000 from the Department for Transport as a contribution to costs of staff early exits;
(f) £4,039,000 from the Department for the Environment Food and Rural Affairs for work on their core agenda; and
(g) £764,000 from the Cabinet Office for work by the Government Offices for the Office of the Third Sector.
(v) an increase in receipts of £576,383,000 offsetting increases in provision of £553,217,000 for Local Area Agreements; £2,260,000 for Ordnance Survey trading fund; £120,000 for Residential Property Tribunal Service; £1,140,000 for Adult Facing Chronic Exclusion;£250,000 for Community Empowerment £5,000,000 for Payments for Data Mapping Services; £14,861,000 for Government Offices; £1,106,000 for Central Administration other current expenditure and £206,000 for Queen Elizabeth II Conference
Centre and reduction of £490,000 for Emergency Fire Service and £1,287,000 for Fire Services
(vi) a net transfer of £11,844,000 from voted to non voted provision comprising:
From voted to non-voted provision
(a) £3,100,000 from Other Growth Areas direct funding to the non-voted West Northamptonshire Urban Development Corporation budget, reflecting their role in delivering Other Growth Area projects.
(b) £10,100,000 from Thames Gateway direct funding to non voted Thurrock Urban Development Corporation (£5,000,000) and London UDC (£5,100,000) budgets for Thames Gateway projects;
(c) £2,557,000 (non cash) from the Central Administration budget to non-voted programme Departmental Unallocated Provision to offset increase in administration near cash budgets.
(d) £300,000 to non voted Housing Corporation towards the National Register of Social Housing (NROSH) project.
(e) £2,000,000 from Energy Performance Certificates to the non voted Housing Corporation budget to allow the corporation to run a programme for the Registered Social Landlords sector for issuing Energy Performance Certificates following the launch of Home Information Packs on 1 August 2007;
(f) £1,006,000 from various programmes to the non-voted Housing Corporation budget to cover the Housing Corporation's increasing pension costs through the Westminster Pension Fund;
(g) £190,000 from housing management grants to the non-voted Leasehold advisory service (LEASE) budget to enable them to meet existing commitments.
From non- voted to voted provision
(h) £7,409,000 from Departmental Unallocated Provision to voted programme comprising £1,255,000 to National Register of Social Housing to cover non cash costs; £500,000 to Coalfields Enterprise Fund to cover the cost of capital: £3,000,000 to E-planning to meet cost of capital charges and depreciation; £1,445,000 to Thames Gateway to cover previously unbudgeted non-cash costs; £143,000 to Residential Property Tribunal Service to cover unforeseen non-cash costs; £190,000 to supporting people administration to cover forecast cost of capital and depreciation charges and £876,000 to Fire Service College.
The change in the administration budget arises from a take up of End of Year Flexibility of £3,000,000 (see above section (i)) to cover the work of the central Department ; a net transfer from other Government Departments of £2,245,000 (see above section (iv)).
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from
(vii) a take up of EYF of £241,295,000 comprising :
(a) £4,000,000 for Thames Gateway ;
(b) £80,000,000 for Gap Funding for Large Scale Voluntary Transfers;
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