Written Ministerial Statements
Tuesday 19 February 2008
Treasury
HM Revenue and Customs (Departmental Expenditure Limit)
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Jane Kennedy): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the HM Revenue and Customs total DEL will be decreased by £3,595,000 from £4,624,117,000 to £4,620,522,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
The change in the resource element of DEL arises from:
Near cash administration costs draw down of non-voted DUP of £20,200,000 taken up as voted provision to facilitate improvements to key operational activities.
Near cash programme transfer of £153,000 from the Department for Finance and Personnel in respect of the aggregates levy.
Non-cash revaluation costs of £2,500,000 reclassified as AME from DEL.
The change in the capital element of DEL arises from:
The draw down of £24,259,000 from the modernisation fund to support costs for the PAYE modernisation project.
Office for National Statistics Departmental Expenditure Limit
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Angela Eagle): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Office for National Statistics' total departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £6,672,000 from £175,178,000 to £181,850,000, and the administration budget will be increased by £6,520,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:
The change in the resource element of DEL arises from:
Reserve claim of £5,400,000.
The take up of Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) of £6,000,000 in order to finance in-year pressures and to meet new priorities
Transfer from the BERR in respect of Construction statistics consisting of £152,000 programme and £1,120,000 admin.
The change in the administration budget arises from reserve claim of £5,400,000, the take up of DUP of £6,000,000 and the transfer of £1,120,000 from BERR.
Government Actuary's Departmental Expenditure Limit
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Angela Eagle): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Government Actuary's Department's total DEL will be increased by £222,000 from £424,000 to £646,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is set out in the following table:
The change in the resource element of DEL arises from:
the take up of DEL End-Year Flexibility (EYF) of £222,000 to cover reduced appropriations-in-aid.
The change in the administration budget arises from the take up of administration DEL EYF of £222,000.
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
EU Competitiveness Council
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Mr. Gareth Thomas): I will be attending the EU Competitiveness Council in Brussels on 25 February.
The two main agenda items are likely to be the Lisbon economic reform process, and the single market review. The Council will be invited to adopt a key issues paper on the renewed Lisbon strategy. This will form the Competitiveness Council’s contribution to the Spring European Council. The Council will then be invited to adopt conclusions on the Commission’s single market review. The review follows much of what the UK called for—a new flexible approach to single market policy that puts the emphasis on promoting competition, reducing the burden of regulation, and encouraging innovation. It is important that the UK builds on the success of the review by ensuring positive conclusions.
The only other substantive agenda item for which BERR is responsible will be:
Strategic Energy Technologies (SET) action plan (an exchange of views). The UK strongly supports the need at Member State and EU level to increase the scale and impact of our investments in low carbon technologies.
There will be seven further items taken under Any Other Business for which BERR is responsible:
i) A presentation by the Commission on its recent package of proposals for the European defence industry,
ii) Information from the presidency on emissions of CO2 from passenger cars and light commercial vehicles.
iii) Information from the Commission on a consumer markets scoreboard,
iv) Information from the presidency on the recent European clusters conference,
v) Information from the presidency on the climate-energy legislative package.
vi) Information from the Commission on the single market scoreboard,
vii) Information from the Commission on better regulation.
Departmental Expenditure Limit (2007-08)
The Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (Mr. John Hutton):
Spring Supplementary Estimates 2007-08
Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform’s DEL will be increased
by £584,491,000 from £3,396,817,000 to £3,981,308,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £174,122,000 from £326,709,000 to £500,831,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:
| Change | New DEL | ||||
| Voted | Non-voted | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| (1)The total of the '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. | |||||
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