Written Ministerial Statements
Thursday 12 February 2009
Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform
Departmental Expenditure Limits
The Minister for Employment Relations and Postal Affairs (Mr. Pat McFadden): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Postal Services Commission DEL will be increased by £1,000 from £152,000 to £153,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £1,000 from £2,000 to £3,000. The impact on resource DEL is set out in the following table. There is no impact on capital DEL.
| New DEL | ||||
| £'000 | ||||
| Change | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| *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 **Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets. | ||||
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.
The change in resource DEL is as a result of additional administration expenditure relating to research into the social value of the Post Office (£100,000) offset by increased appropriations-in-aid income from the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR).
There is a token £1,000 increase in the resource DEL and the administration budget.
The Minister for Trade, Development and Consumer Affairs (Mr. Gareth Thomas): My nobel Friend Lord Davies of Abersoch, the Minister of State for Trade and Investment has made the following statement:
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, UKTI’s total DEL will be decreased by £199,000 from £91,506,000 to £91,307,000.
This reflects the net transfer of £200,000 in Voted capital from UKTI’s Vote to BERR’s Vote. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is set out in the following table:
| Change | New DEL | £’000 | |||
| Voted | Non-voted | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
| (1)Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets. (2)Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from total DEL since Capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting. | |||||
UKTI’s vote does not include Administration provision, which is included in the Estimates of our parent departments, BERR and FCO.
The change in the resource element of DEL arises from:
A token increase of £1,000 to allow an increase in appropriations-in-aid to be included in the estimate.
The change in the capital element of DEL arises from:
A transfer of capital underspend of £200,000 to BERR to fund capital works to UKTI accommodation.
Treasury
Pensions Uprating
The Chief Secretary to the Treasury (Yvette Cooper): Legislation governing public service pensions requires them to be increased annually by the same percentage as additional pensions (State Earnings Related Pension and State Second Pension). Public service pensions will therefore be increased from 6 April 2009 in line with the annual increase in the Retail Prices Index up to September 2008, except for those public service pensions which have been in payment for less than a year, which will receive a pro-rata increase.
Departmental Expenditure Limits
The Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (Angela Eagle): Subject to Parliamentary approval of the spring supplementary estimate, HM Treasury’s resource DEL will be increased by £73,000 from £221,551,000 to £221,624,000 and the Administration budget will be increased by £118,000 from £169,425,000 to £169,543,000 with no net change in the capital DEL. The impact on resources and the administration budget is set out in the following table:
| Change | New DEL | |||||
| Voted | Non- voted | Voted | Non-voted | Total | ||
| *The total of 'Administration budget' and 'Near cash in Resource DEL' figures may well be greater than total Resource DEL, due to definitions overlapping. ** Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets. *** 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. | ||||||
The net increase in resource DEL of £73,000 is the net effect of the following:
A transfer to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £17,000 administration costs as a contribution towards the costs of the Skills Strategy.
Transfers from the Departments of Health and Culture, Media and Sport of £45,000 near cash administration costs each to the Office of Government Commerce towards the costs of the Centre of Expertise in Sustainable Procurement.
The net increase in the administration costs budget is £118,000 comprising the administration costs changes mentioned in the preceding paragraphs, plus the reclassification of a programme costs transfer from the UK Statistics Authority received in the winter Supplementary Estimates round to administration costs of £45,000.
There is a reduction in non-voted Resource DEL due to the draw down of Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) comprising £4,313,000 administration costs and £2,000,000 programme costs to offset increased voted spending. There is also a reduction in non-voted capital DEL due to the draw down of DUP of £700,000.
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (Ian Pearson): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, National Savings and Investments DEL will be increased by £18,900,000 to £183,547,000. Within DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are set out in the following table:
| Change | New Del | ||||
| Voted | Non-voted | Voted | Non-Voted | Total | |
| * 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. | |||||
The change in the resource element of DEL arises from:
A drawdown of £ 6,900,000 from the Modernisation Fund for the upgrade of NS&l’s core IT infrastructure.
The take up of DEL End Year Flexibility (EYF) of £12,000,000—near cash— to cover payments related to increased sales volumes.
The change in the administration budget arises from the Modernisation Fund draw down.
The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Stephen Timms): Subject to parliamentary approval of the Supplementary Estimate, the HM Revenue & Customs total DEL will be increased by £75,248,000 from £4,539,797,000 to £4,615,045,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
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