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The Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) element of the Attorney General's DEL will be increased by £14,815,000 from £631,537,000 to £646,352,000. The Administration budget will be reduced by £112,000 from £57,415,000 to £57,303,000.

The change in the CPS's DEL arises from:

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) element of the Attorney General's DEL will be increased by £17,145,000 from £37,669,000 to £54,814,000. The Administration budget will increase from £24,969 to £31,635.

The changes in the SFO's DEL arise from:


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The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office's (RCPO) element of the Attorney General's DEL will be reduced by £317,000 from £36,726,000 to £36,409,000. This reduction will occur within the Administration Budget which will be reduced from £18,253,000 to £17,936,000.

The change in RCPO's DEL arises from:

The HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor (TSol) element of the Attorney General's DEL will be increased by £836,000 from £16,221,000 to £17,057,000.
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This increase will occur within the Administration Budget which will increase from £11,624,000 to £ 12,769,000.

The change in TSol's DEL arises from:

Transport

Departmental Expenditure (Department for Transport)

The Secretary of State for Transport (Ruth Kelly): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Transport departmental expenditure limit (DEL) for 2007-08 will be increased by £197,841,000 from £12,907,737,000 to £13,105,578,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £30,087,000 from £259,297,000 to £289,384,000.

Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital, are as set out in the following table:

£'000
Change in DELNew DEL
VotedNon-VotedVotedNon-VotedTotal

Resource:

198,788

22,305

6,451,490

473,987

6,925,477

Of Which:

Administration

30,711

-624

285,181

4,203

289,384

Near cash in RDEL

204,388

16,705

5,790,429

638,402

6,428,831

Capital

247,829

-264,829

5,437,836

1,105,542

6,543,378

LESS Depreciation(1)

-1,000

-5,252

-357,709

-5,568

-363,277

Total

445,617

-247,776

11,531,617

1,573,961

13,105,578

(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.

Resource Change: Administration (total increase of £30,087,000)

Voted: total increase of £30,711,000.

RfRl

Non Voted: total decrease of £624,000.

Resource Change: Programme (total increase of £191,006,000)

Voted: total increase of £168,077,000


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Non voted: total increase of £22,929,000

Capital change (total decrease of £17,000,000)

Voted: total increase of £247,829,000

Non-voted: total decrease of £264,829,000 reflecting a net transfer to voted capital provision.

Wales

Departmental Expenditure (Wales Office)

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Mr. Peter Hain): The Welsh Assembly Government's Departmental Expenditure Limit will be increased by £29,750,000 from £13,789,740,000 to £13,819,490,000. The increase is a result of:


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The increase in DEL will be offset by transfers from other Departments and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.

Provision for the Wales Office is increased by £476,000 as a result of

Wales Office spending is contained within single Ministry of Justice Departmental Expenditure Limit and Administration Costs Limit.

Work and Pensions

Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission

The Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Mr. Peter Hain): I am pleased to announce the appointment of Janet Paraskeva as the Chair Designate of the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission. Her appointment will take effect as from 19 November 2007. Janet Paraskeva brings extensive experience to this role from her time as Chief Executive of the Law Society, Director of the National Lottery Charities Board and as Chief Executive of the National Youth Agency. She is also currently the First Civil Service Commissioner.

Subject to the passage of the Child Maintenance and Other Payments Bill, the Child Maintenance and Enforcement Commission will have responsibility for the future Child Maintenance system. The Commission's key objective will be to get more money to more families, helping to lift more children out of poverty.


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