Mr. Letwin:
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2008, Official 27 Oct 2008 : Column 784W
Report, column 1739W, on public expenditure, what, in near cash terms, the amount of negative departmental expenditure limit income retained by departments was, broken down on the same basis as tables 1.7 and 1.10 of Public Expenditure Statistical Analysis 2008 (HC 489, 2007-08). [210951]
Yvette Cooper:
The following tables show the negative departmental expenditure limit included in central Government departmental budgets published in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2008 (HC 489). The main components are sales of goods and services (including by NHS and Foundation Trusts), grants from the EC and transfers from other Departments, for example in respect of co-funded non-departmental public bodies. The Consolidated Budgeting Guidance details all types of income that can be treated as a benefit to departmental budgets and is available at the following link: