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Innovation, Universities and Skills
The Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills (Mr. John Denham): Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be increased by £19,360,000 from £18,368,379,000 to £18,387,739,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £1,733,000 from £70,000,000 to £71,733,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
| £'000 | Change | New DEL | |||
| Voted | Non-Voted | Voted | Non-Voted | Total | |
| (1)The total of '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 in the table above, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting. | |||||
The increase in the resource element of the DEL of £19,260,000 arises from a decrease in the voted element of resource DEL of £17,491,000 and an increase of £36,751,000 in the non-voted element of resource DEL.
The £17,491,000 decrease in the voted element of resource DEL arises from:
RfR1
The take up from the departmental unallocated provision (DUP) of £5,000,000 for part-time student support.
A machinery of Government transfer from the Cabinet Office of £1,600,000 for Government skills.
A transfer from the Cabinet Office for £42,000 for parliamentary counsel costs.
A transfer from the Ministry of Justice of £13,912,000 for offender learning.
A transfer from the Department for Children, Schools and Families of £3,655,000 for vocational qualifications reform.
An increase in voted receipts for the Higher Education Funding Council for England of £1,142,000 from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, offset by an increase in the Higher Education Funding Council for England non-voted resource DEL.
An increase in voted receipts for the Student Loans Company of £1,700,000 from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, offset by an increase in the Student Loans Company non-voted resource DEL.
An increase in voted receipts of £50,000 for receipts from the Department of Health for Health and Well-being at Work, offset by an increase in the Investors in People UK non-voted resource DEL.
A net decrease in voted receipts for the Learning and Skills Council of £39,289,000, offset by a net decrease in the Learning and Skills Council non-voted resource DEL.
An increase in central administration costs of £91,000 for an element of the comprehensive spending review 2007 settlement omitted from the main estimate.
A net movement from non-voted resource DEL of £7,921,000 consisting of increases to voted resource DEL for student support (£7,500,000), foundation degrees (£711,000), international programmes (£210,000) and a decrease to technology strategy (£500,000).
RfR2
A movement to non-voted resource DEL of £86,109,000 for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (£55,000,000) and the Research Councils (£31,109,000).
The £36,751,000 increase in non-voted resource DEL arises from:
A movement to RfR1 voted resource DEL of £5,000,000 for the take-up from the departmental unallocated provision (DUP) for part-time student support.
An increase in the Higher Education Funding Council for England non-voted resource DEL of £1,142,000 offset by an increase in voted receipts for the Higher Education Funding Council for England from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
An increase in the Student Loans Company non-voted resource DEL of £1,700,000, offset by an increase in voted receipts for the Student Loans Company from the Department for Children, Schools and Families.
An increase in the Investors in People non-voted resource DEL of £50,000, offset by an increase in voted receipts from the Department of Health for Health and Well-being at Work.
A net decrease in the Learning and Skills Council non-voted resource DEL of £39,289,000, offset by a net decrease in voted receipts for the Learning and Skills Council.
A net movement to RfR1 voted resource DEL of £7,921,000 consisting of increases to voted resource DEL for student support (£7,500,000), foundation degrees (£711,000), international programmes (£210,000) and a decrease to voted resource DEL for technology strategy (£500,000).
A movement to non-voted resource DEL of £86,109,000 from RfR2 voted resource DEL for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (£55,000,000) and for the Research Councils (£31,109,000).
A transfer to the Cabinet Office of £40,000 for the Government security zone.
The increase in the capital element of the DEL of £100,000 arises from a decrease in the voted element of capital DEL of £234,011,000 and an increase of £234,111,000 in the non-voted element of capital DEL.
The £234,011,000 decrease in the voted element of capital DEL arises from:
RfR1
An increase in departmental capital costs of £100,000 for an element of the comprehensive spending review 2007 settlement omitted from the main estimate.
RfR2
An increase in voted receipts for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of £4,900,000, offset by an increase in the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council non-voted capital DEL.
A movement to non-voted capital DEL of £229,211,000 from voted capital DEL for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (£190,000,000) and for the Research Councils (£39,211,000).
The £234,111,000 increase in the non-voted element of capital DEL arises from:
An increase in the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council non-voted capital DEL of £4,900,000, offset by an increase in voted receipts for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.
A movement from RfR2 voted capital DEL of £229,211,000 to non-voted capital DEL for the Science and Research Investment Fund (£190,000,000) and for the Research Councils (£39,211,000).
The £1,733,000 increase within the administration budget arises from:
A machinery of Government transfer from the Cabinet Office of £1,600,000 for Government skills.
A transfer from the Cabinet Office for £42,000 for parliamentary counsel costs.
An increase in central administration costs of £91,000 for an element of the comprehensive spending review 2007 settlement omitted from the main estimate.
Student Finance (Uprating)
The Minister of State, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (Mr. David Lammy): On 29 October 2008 my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Innovation, Universities and Skills, announced that the Government is making extra money available, totalling £100 million in steady state, to meet the higher than expected demand for student support in 2009-10 and beyond. This will enable the Government to maintain its intention that two-thirds of eligible students should receive either the full grant of £2,906 or a partial grant in 2009-10. We also expect that our commitment for one-third of eligible students to receive a full grant will be exceeded—under the new package, we anticipate that 40 per cent. of students may be eligible for a full grant.
This means that students with household incomes ranging from £18,360 to £50,020 will be eligible for higher levels of grant than in 2007-08, while those with incomes ranging from £18,360 to £57,708 will be eligible for a more generous package of grant and loan support than in 2007-08. Amendment Regulations to the Education (Student Support) (No 2) Regulations 2008 are being laid today.
My predecessor as Minister of State for Higher Education, the Member for Harlow (Bill Rammell), placed a Memorandum in the Library on 13 May 2008 giving details of the increased loan, grant and fee rates for the 2009-10 academic year, in line with forecast price increases. The detailed tables in that memorandum gave income thresholds for the partial maintenance grant and for the non-means-tested element of the student loan, which have now been revised. I am therefore placing an updated memorandum in the Library which makes clear the levels of support available to new entrants in 2009-10, as well as giving tables showing support for continuing students.
International Development
Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL)
The Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. Douglas Alexander):
As a consequence of budgetary transfers associated with the Winter Supplementary Estimates, the Department for International Development's total departmental expenditure limit will be reduced by £1,377,000 from £5,737,828,000 to £5,736,451,000. Within
the total DEL change, the impact on Resource and Capital is set out in the following table:
| £’000 | Change | New DEL | |||
| Voted | Non Voted | Voted | Non Voted | Total | |
| (1)The total of 'Administration budget' and ‘Near-cash in Resource DEL’ figures may well be greater than total resource DEL, due to the definitions overlapping. (2)Depreciation, which forms part of the resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of these assets would lead to double counting. | |||||
The net change in the resource element of DEL arises from:
£1,970,000 transferred to DFID from the Ministry of Defence in relation to Stabilisation Aid Fund projects in Iraq.
£738,000 transferred to DFID from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to Stabilisation Aid Fund funded projects in Afghanistan.
£40,000 transferred from DFID to the Cabinet Office in relation to the funding of the Government Security Zone.
£4,000,000 transferred from DFID to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to the Returns and Reintegration Fund.
£45,000 transferred from DFID to HM Treasury as a contribution to the Office for Government Commerce’s project Centre of Expertise in Sustainable Procurement.
There are no changes in the capital element of DEL.
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