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The change in the resource element of the DEL and in the administration budget arises from additional funding agreed in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) Settlement as follows:
expenditure of £1,000,000 to review the links between terrorist financing and charities;
£500,000 to fund additional responsibilities following the passage of the Charities Act 2006.
The change in the administration budget also arises from additional funding in the 2007 CSR settlement as detailed above.
The change in the capital element of the DEL reflects a reduction of funding on capital spending of £499,000 following the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review Settlement.
The Supplementary Estimate also details changes in operating appropriations in aid, fully offset by changes in spending and not impacting on the Commission's Departmental Expenditure Limit:
project funding of £450,000 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the continuation of the International Outreach project;
funding of £400,000 by the Department for Communities and Local Government for the creation of the Faith and Social Cohesion unit;
£250,000 additional accommodation charges funded by the sub-letting of a floor at the Commission's London office building.
Departmental Expenditure (National School of Government)
The Parliamentary Secretary, Cabinet Office (Gillian Merron): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the National School of Government departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £802,000 from £415,000 to £1,217,000 and the administration costs limit will be £1,217,000. Voted Capital will increase by £401,000 to £1,270,000. These figures reflect a take up of End Year Flexibility from 2006-07 and a transfer of £200,000 from Resource to Capital.
Within the DEL change, the impact of resources and Capital are as set out in the following table:
| New DEL | |||
| £’000 | Change | Voted | Total |
| *The total of the ‘Administration Budget' and the ‘Near cash in Resource DEL' figures may well be greater than the total resource DEL, due to definitions overlapping. **Capital DEL includes items treated as resources 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. | |||
GOVERNMENT EQUALITIES OFFICE
Departmental Expenditure (Government Equalities Office)
The Leader of the House of Commons (Ms Harriet Harman): The Transfer of Functions (Equality) Order 2007 (No. 2914) confirms the establishment of the Government Equalities Office and details the functions that have transferred from the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government. The transfer of functions from the Department of Communities and Local Government came into force on 12 October 2007.
Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Government Equalities Office Departmental Expenditure Limit will be set at £73,430,000 and the administration budget will be set at £3,885,000. The Departmental Expenditure Limit includes £46,500,000 resource and £7,000,000 capital funding for the Commission for Equality and Human Rights.
Within the Departmental Expenditure Limit, the impact on resource and capital is as set out in the following table:
Northern Ireland
Departmental Expenditure (Northern Ireland Office)
The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (Mr. Shaun Woodward): Subject to Parliamentary approval the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) will be taking a 2007/08 Winter Supplementary Estimate. The effect this will have is to increase the NIO's DEL by £190,138,000 from £1,163,537,000 to £1,353,675,000.
| £’000 | |||||
| Change | New DEL | ||||
| Voted | Non-Voted | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
The change in total DEL of £190,138,000 relates primarily to the draw down of End Year Flexibility of £172,500,000 of which £69,500,000 is near cash resource and £103,000,000 is non-cash. There is an increase of £30,000,000 in respect of a change in the discount rate for police pensions; a resource budget transfer of £165,000 from the Cabinet Office; and a Machinery of Government change of £751,000 to transfer responsibility for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel to the Northern Ireland Court Service.
The cash draw down is in relation to the additional resource requirement for various business areas within the Department such as Political Inquiries, Public Prosecution Service, NIPS, YJA, Criminal Justice, Bloody Sunday Inquiry, PSNI, Probation Board and Policing Board. The non-cash element is required for Public Prosecution Service, Compensation Agency, Youth Justice Agency and PSNI.
The administration budget increases by £3,045,000 from £78,824,000 to £81,869,000 as a result of the take up of End Year Flexibility and the resource budget transfer from the Cabinet Office.
The reduction in capital DEL of £10,000 is the Machinery of Government transfer of responsibility for the Criminal Injuries Compensation Appeals Panel to the Northern Ireland Court Service.
Prime Minister
European Union
The Prime Minister (Mr. Gordon Brown): I have appointed Sir Stephen Wall to write volume II of the Official History of the UK Accession to the European Union.
Scotland
Departmental Expenditure (Scotland)
The Secretary of State for Scotland (Des Browne): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimates, the Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) provision for the administration of the Scotland Office will be increased by £56,000 and the Scotland DEL will be increased by £786,601,000 from £26,270,808,000 to £27,057,409,000.
The administration of the Scotland Office DEL increase takes account of the following routine adjustment:
a transfer of £56,000 from the Scottish Executive
The Scotland DEL increase takes account of the following routine adjustments to the Scottish Executive provision:
the take-up of End Year Flexibility (EYF) by the Scottish Executive amounting to £655,000,000;
The DEL increase also includes the following changes, amounting to a net increase of £155,991,000. These are:
a transfer of £25,947,000 from the Department for Transport;
a classification change in respect of the funding of the Scottish WaterCost of Capital of £130,100,000; and
a transfer of £56,000 to the Scotland Office.
The increases will be added to the planned total of public expenditure to fund spending commitments in the current financial year.
Solicitor-General
Departmental Expenditure (Attorney-General)
The Solicitor-General (Vera Baird): My right hon. Friend the Attorney-General has made the following written ministerial statement:
Subject to Parliamentary approval of the Winter Supplementary Estimate, the Attorney General's DEL will be increased by £39,479,000 from £717,497,000 to £756,976,000 and the Administration budget will be increased by £7,382,000 from £112,261,000 to £119,643,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| Change | New DEL | ||||
| Voted | Non-Voted | Voted | Non-Voted | Total | |
| 37,988 | -7,000 | 749,341 | 749,341 | ||
| (1)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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