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The Northern Ireland Executive DEL will increase by £193,887,000 from £8,522,664,000 to £8,716,551,000.
The change reflects the draw down of EYF of £105,000,000 (£75,000,000 near cash and £30,000,000 capital) and an addition of £100,000,000 (£88,000,000 near cash and £12,000,000 capital) for funding the water industry and innovation. In addition there are net outward budget transfers totalling £11,113,000 (£6,163,000 resource near cash and £4,950,000 capital) to the Northern Ireland Office and HM Revenue and Customs.
Prime Minister
Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe
The Prime Minister (Mr. Gordon Brown): My hon. Friend the Member for Preston (Mr. Hendrick) has been appointed as a full Member of the United Kingdom Delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe in place of my hon. Friend the Member for Caerphilly (Wayne David).
Scotland
Departmental Expenditure Limit (2007-08)
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 £900,000 and takes account of the following routine adjustment:
a take-up of near cash End Year flexibility of £900,000.
The increase will be added to the planned total of public expenditure spending commitments in the current financial year.
The Scotland DEL will decrease by £4,500,000 from £27,077,409,000 to £27,072,909,000.
The Scotland DEL decrease takes account of the following routine adjustments to the Scottish Executive provision:
a reduction of £5,000,000 following the change in responsibility for the payment ofcertain staff in SEERAD; and
a reduction of £25,000,000 in non cash provision for impairments; and
an increase of £500,000 in respect of a further transfer from the Department ofTransport for rail services in Scotland.
cash accrual adjustments of £25,000,000.
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 Spring Supplementary Estimate, the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £16,110,000 from £756,976,000 to £773,086,000 and the Administration budget will be increased by £3,450,000 from £119,643,000 to £123,093,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
The Crown Prosecution Service's (CPS) element of the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £10,080,000 from £648,696,000 to £658,776,000. There is no change in the Administration budget.
The change in the CPS's DEL arises from:
£8,000,000 allocation to the Departmental Unallocated Provision for counter-terrorism.
An increase to DEL due to a budgetary transfer of £3,000,000 from the Ministry of Justice from the Victims Surcharge programme to continue to improve services to prosecution witnesses in court.
A decrease of £655,000 programme resources due to the reallocation of resource DEL budgetary cover from the Crown Prosecution Service to the Ministry of Justice to support Criminal Justice Information Technology (CJIT) projects.
A decrease of £265,000 programme resources due to the reallocation of resource DEL budgetary cover from the Crown Prosecution Service to the Ministry of Justice to support the Criminal Justice Information Technology (CJIT) Progress project.
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) element of the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £300,000 from £54,814,000 to £55,114,000. The Administration budget remains unchanged.
The changes in the SFO's DEL arise from:
The take up of £300,000 Capital End Year Flexibility to meet the cost of additional Capital spend.
The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office's (RCPO) element of the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £3,700,000 from £36,409,000 to £40,109,000. The Administration Budget which will be increased by £2,500,000 from £17,936,000 to £20,436,000.
The changes in RCPO's DEL arise from:
A draw down of £2,400,000 near-cash administration resources from the EYF entitlement for 2007-08 in order to fund increased activity on Asset Recovery.
A draw down of £600,000 non-cash administration resources from the EYF entitlement for 2007-08 in order to depreciate refurbishment and IT establishment costs.
A reduction of £317,000 in administration spending to facilitate a reallocation of resource DEL to the Treasury Solicitor's Department to fund administration of the Attorney-General's Office. The transfer of budgetary cover was announced in the Winter Supplementary Written Statement and previously taken up by the Treasury Solicitor's Department in their Winter Supplementary Estimate.
An increase in forecast programme receipts of £2,142,000 not fully offset by spending of £1,642,000.
An increase in forecast administration receipts of £1,349,000 fully offset by spending of£l,349,000.
The take up of £800,000 from the capital EYF entitlement for 2007/08, in order to cover the establishment costs for the RCPO IT project and the capitalisation of the majority of refurbishment costs.
An increase of £1,000,000 in capital spending, to cover establishment costs for the RCPO IT project and the capitalisation of the majority of refurbishment costs. This is to be funded by a reallocation of capital DEL from the Treasury Solicitor's Department.
The HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor (TSol) element of the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £2,030,000 from £17,057,000 to £19,087,000. The Administration Budget which will increase by £950,000 from £12,769,000 to £13,719,000.
The change in TSol's DEL arises from:
Take up £800,000 of administration costs resource End-Year Flexibility (EYF) (near- cash) to meet the cost of policy support to the Attorney-General's office and accommodation. In budgetary terms, RDEL EYF entitlement transferred from the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office.
The take up of £150,000 administration costs resource EYF (non-cash) to meet the cost of policy support to the Attorney-General's office and accommodation.
An increase of £120,000 in depreciation costs.
An increase of £1,200,000 for resource EYF transferred from RCPO.”
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 £584,299,000 from £13,105,578,000 to £13,689,877,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £5,142,000 from £289,384,000 to £294,526,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital, are as set out in the following table:
Resource Change: Administration (total increase of £5,142,000)
Voted: total increase of £7,845,000.
(i) Take up of £3,642,000 near cash end year flexibility for various pressuresincluding the implementation of Eddington work, recruitment costs and building costs; and
(ii) A transfer of £4,203,000 from non-voted near cash departmental unallocated provision to provide for opening budget allocations agreed in the 2007-08 Business Plan.
Non-Voted: total decrease of £2,703,000.
(iii) Take up of £1,500,000 near cash end year flexibility for utilisation of a provision in respect of building dilapidations ;and (iv) A transfer of £4,203,000 to voted near cash administration provision.
Resource Change: Programme (total decrease of £33,719,000)
Voted: total decrease of £123,353,000
(i) Take up of £43,598,000 near cash end year flexibility (including £17,500,000 from administration entitlement) for Crossrail;
(ii)..A transfer of £500,000 near cash to the Scottish Executive for the Rail Environmental Benefit Procurement Scheme;
(iii) A reduction of £150,000,000 non cash Highways Agency impairments reclassified as Annually Managed Expenditure;
(iv) A net transfer of £16,451,000 to non voted provision as follows:
a. 300,000 near cash from Power Shift to the Renewable Fuels Agency;
b. £17,587,000 from Rail, including £7,740,000 non-cash and £4,847,000 non-cash switched to near cash (see (v) below); partially offset by:
c. £1,436,000 near cash increase to the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency enforcement;
(v) £20,000,000 of Rail non-cash headroom has been converted to near cash, permitted under Treasury guidelines, to fund the following:
a. £2,028,000 for concessionary travel;
b. £10,025,000 for Shared Services;
c. £3,100,000 for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency ; and
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