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Public Expenditure

Mr. Letwin: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer pursuant to the answer of 15 May 2008, Official
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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:

http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/media/4/1/consolidated_budguid010208.pdf

Near-cash in resource DEL by departmental group( 1)
£ million
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Children, Schools and Families	-58	-129	-91	-87	-77	-57
Health	-7,764	-8,565	-9,646	-11,153	-10,206	-10,423
O f which:
NHS England	-7,661	-8,441	-9,526	-11,005	-9,993	-10,132
Transport	-575	-583	-768	-857	-1,008	-1,076
Innovation, Universities and Skills	-4,438	-5,054	-5,605	-6,446	-6,977	-7,195
CLG Communities	-167	-127	-193	-198	-261	-246
CLG Local Government	-12	-4	-5	-2	-10	0
Justice	-700	-912	-1,349	-1,153	-1,393	-1,145
Home Office	-234	-365	-777	-786	-916	-1,150
Law Officers’ Departments	-100	-112	-100	-107	-130	-158
Defence	-1,434	-1,383	-1,227	-1,440	-1,495	-1,347
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	-172	-204	-245	-327	-342	-414
International Development	-19	-8	-12	-8	-11	-10
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform	-1,133	-1,275	-1,299	-2,550	-2,445	-2,287
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	-2,807	-2,815	-2,737	-3,046	-2,756	-2,585
Culture, Media and Sport	-313	-330	-374	-353	-427	-392
Work and Pensions	-564	-689	-779	-903	-893	-857
Scotland	-1,182	-1,060	-978	-820	-874	-936
Wales	-431	-448	-285	-504	-491	-417
Northern Ireland Executive	-910	-974	-1,184	-1,380	-1,271	-1,400
Northern Ireland Office	-95	-91	-98	-104	-104	-107
Chancellor’s Departments	-660	-682	-700	-768	-703	-747
Cabinet Office	-73	-96	-126	-183	-207	-214
Independent Bodies	-62	-67	-78	-73	-84	-83

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Capital DEL by departmental group( 1)
£ million
	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Children, Schools and Families	0	-2	-1	0	-1	0
Health	-1,261	-551	-533	-1,208	-1,167	-515
O f which:
NHS England	-1,259	-551	-533	-1,208	-1,167	-515
Transport	-76	-138	-89	-79	-53	-88
Innovation, Universities and Skills	-23	-62	-49	-146	-38	-113
CLG Communities	-199	-353	-379	-625	-629	-751
CLG Local Government	—	—	0	—	—	-31
Justice	-20	-55	-22	-9	-21	-12
Home Office	3	-12	0	-9	0	-14
Law Officers’ Departments	—	—	—	-34	0	0
Defence	-350	-252	-350	-705	-480	-539
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	-17	-27	-12	-18	-58	-15
International Development	-39	-41	-32	-32	-35	-38
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform	-1,687	-1,332	-1,101	-1,195	-1,369	-1,255
Environment, Food and Rural Affairs	-46	-17	-13	-26	-34	-12
Culture, Media and Sport	-100	-142	-72	-114	-114	-152
Work and Pensions	-19	-168	-10	-57	-22	-17
Scotland	-79	-202	-247	-196	-216	-206
Wales	-27	-129	-130	-119	-131	-193
Northern Ireland Executive	-235	-361	-400	-361	-407	-322
Northern Ireland Office	0	0	-1	-4	-2	-79
Chancellor’s Departments	-103	-2	-97	-33	-11	-1
Cabinet Office	-1	-71	-1	-1	-12	-17
Independent Bodies	0	0	0	0	-8	0
(1) ‘—’ indicate no income whereas zeros indicate income of less than £0.5 million.

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