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RfR1
The take-up of £84,000,000 of near-cash End year Flexibility for Higher Education Support for Students (£74,000,000) and Further Education, Skills and International Programmes (£10,000,000).
The take-up of £54,715,000 of non-cash End Year Flexibility (EYF) for Higher Education (£48,752,000), Science, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer (£5,732,000) and Further Education, Skills and International Programmes (£231,000).
The take-up of £5,917,000 of near-cash Administration costs End Year Flexibility (EYF) for Activities to Support all Functions.
The take-up from the Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) of £12,472,000 for Higher Education Support for Students (£8,008,000), Higher Education (£2,689,000) and Further Education, Skills and International Programmes (£1,775,000).
A transfer from the Ministry of Justice of £1,957,000 for Offender Learning.
Transfers from other Government Departments of £959,000 Administration costs for Government Skills.
A transfer from the Department for Children, Schools and Families of £450,000 for the Further Education Procurement Consortium.
Transfers from other Government Departments of £375,000 other resource for Government Skills.
A net movement to non-voted Resource DEL of £53,936,000 consisting of increased to voted Resource DEL for Further Education, Skills and International Programmes (Grants) (£20,553,000), Science, Innovation and Knowledge Transfer (£252,000), and Higher Education (non-cash) (£32,000); and decreases to Higher Education Support for Students (non-cash) (£50,395,000), Higher Education (near-cash) (£12,972,000), Further Education, Skills and International Programmes (other current) (£10,291,000), Activities to Support all Functions (£895,000), and Higher Education Support for Students (near-cash) (£220,000).
A net increase in voted receipts for the Learning and Skills Council of £56,405,000, offset by a net increase in the Learning and Skills Council non-voted Resource DEL.
An increase in voted receipts for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills of £11,819,000, offset by an increase in the UK Commission for Employment and Skills non-voted Resource DEL.
An increase in voted receipts for the Higher Education Funding Council for England of £596,000, offset by an increase in the Higher Education Funding Council for England non-voted Resource DEL.
An increase in voted receipts of £1,955,000 reflecting the movement of the UK Intellectual Property Office Dividend from non-voted to voted Resource DEL receipts.
A transfer from Administration to Programme in respect of the £959,000 transfers received from other Government Departments for Government Skills.
RfR2
A movement to non-voted Resource DEL of £700,000 from Knowledge Transfer.
The £237,857,000 increase in non-voted Resource DEL arises from:
The take-up of £87,388,000 of near-cash End Year Flexibility (EYF) for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (£30,000,000), the Natural Environment Research Council (£26,706,000), the Science and Technology Facilities Council (£17,651,000), the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (£72,255,000), the Arts and Humanities Research Council (£2,595,000), the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (£2,353,000), the Medical Research Council (£425,000) and the Economic and Social Research Council (£403,000).
The take-up from the Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) of £12,472,000 to voted Resource DEL for Higher Education Support for Students (£8,008,000), Higher Education (£2,689,000) and Further Education, Skills and International Programmes (£1,775,000).
A transfer from the Department for Children, Schools and Families of £6,530,000 for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
An increase in the Medical Research Council (MRC) non-voted non-cash Resource DEL of £31,000,000 arising from a claim on the DEL Reserve for the costs of bringing the MRC Commercial Fund into the Budgetary regime.
A net movement to non-voted Resource DEL of £53,936,000 from RfR1 voted Resource DEL consisting of increases for the Higher Education Funding Council for England (£65,019,000), the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (£6,138,000), the Student Loans Company (£1,205,000), Investors in People UK (£100,000) and the Office for Fair Access (£60,000); and decreases for the Technology Strategy Board (£12,700,000), the Learning and Skills Council (£4,834,000), the Quality Improvement Agency (£800,000) and the Design Council (£252,000).
A movement to non-voted Resource DEL of £700,000 from RfR2 voted Resource DEL for the Natural Environment Research Council
A net increase in the Learning and Skills Council non-voted Resource DEL of £56,405,000, offset by a net increase in voted receipts for the Learning and Skills Council.
An increase in the UK Commission for Employment and Skills non-voted Resource DEL of £11,819,000, offset by an increase in voted receipts for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
An increase in the Higher Education Funding Council for England non-voted Resource DEL of £596,000, offset by an increase in voted receipts for the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
An increase in non-voted Resource DEL of £1,955,000 reflecting the movement of the UK Intellectual Property Office Dividend to voted Resource DEL receipts.
The increase in the Capital element of the DEL of £132,000,000 arises from an increase in the voted element of Capital DEL of £1,524,000 and an increase of £130,476,000 in the non-voted element of Capital DEL.
The £1,524,000 increase in the voted element of Capital DEL arises from:
RfR1
A movement to non-voted Capital DEL of £100,000 from Further Education, Skills and International Programmes to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
An increase in voted Capital DEL of £374,000 brought forward from 2010-11 as announced in the 2008 pre-Budget report for High Education support for Students.
RfR2
A movement to voted Capital DEL of £1,250,000 from non-voted Capital DEL for the Medical Research Council to the Science and Research Investment Fund.
The £130,476,000 increase in the non-voted element of Capital DEL arises from:
The take-up of £166,626,000 of Capital DEL brought forward from 2010-11 as announced in the 2008 pre-Budget report for the Learning and Skills Council (£110,000,000), the Higher Education Funding Council for England (£50,408,000), the Natural Environment Research Council (£5,000,000) and the Student Loans Company (£1,218,000).
A transfer to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform of £35,000,000 as agreed in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review settlement.
A movement from RfR1 voted Capital DEL of £100,000 to non-voted Capital DEL for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.
A movement to RfR2 voted Capital DEL of £1,250,000 from non-voted Capital DEL for the Medical Research Council to the Science and Research Investment Fund.
The £5,917,000 increase within the Administration Budget arises from:
The take-up of £5,917,000 of near-cash End Year Flexibility (EYF).
Transfers from other Government Departments totalling £959,000 for Government Skills.
A transfer from Administration to Programme in respect of the £959,000 transfers received from other Government Departments for Government Skills”.
Student Loans Company Delivery Strategy
The Minister of State, Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (Mr. David Lammy):
In July 2006, the then Education Minister, my hon. Friend the
Member for Harlow (Bill Rammell) announced that the Student Loans Company (SLC) would become the national delivery organisation of a transformed student finance service which provides a higher quality of service, and is more convenient for the customer.
The SLC is undergoing a programme of change to equip itself for its new role. As part of this we asked the Company to prepare a Delivery Strategy which sets out how it would deliver the policy objectives of DIUS and the Devolved Administrations.
I received the final version of the Company’s Delivery Strategy on 20 October 2008. It outlines what results the Company will deliver over the next three years, and the capacity and capability it will need to build, to ensure the effective delivery of the aspects of the student finance service for which it is now responsible. It also proposes the success measures that DIUS will use to hold the Company to account over its performance.
I am going to place the SLC Delivery Strategy in the Libraries of the House of Commons and the House of Lords.
International Development
Departmental Expenditure Limits
The Secretary of State for International Development (Mr. Douglas Alexander): Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department for International Development’s departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be reduced by £29,787,000 from £5,736,451,000 to £5,706,664,000.
With 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 Estimate and Accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets. (3) 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:
£916,000 transferred from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of Stabilisation Aid Fund projects in Afghanistan.
£1,650,000 transferred to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in respect of projects connected to the London 2012 Olympics.
£300,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of payments to locally engaged staff in Iraq.
£1,000,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of the Returns and Reintegration Fund.
£5,000 transferred to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in respect of the Skills Strategy for Government project.
£6,716,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of the Conflict Prevention Pool.
£18,899,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of the Conflict Prevention Pool.
£216,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of a Conflict Pool project in Ghana.
£917,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of Stabilisation Aid Fund projects in Iraq.
£1,000,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of a Police Reform project in Pakistan.
There is no net change in the ‘Capital’ element of DEL.
Justice
Family Legal Aid Reform
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Justice (Mr. Shahid Malik): My noble Friend the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Lord Bach, has made the following Written ministerial statement.
“Between 18 June and 10 September 2008, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) and the Legal Services commission (LSC) consulted on options for how payments made under the Family Graduated Fees Scheme, which governs payments to barristers for family legal aid work, could be reduced in order to live within budget, and to protect services to vulnerable clients. Our consultation was announced in a statement made by my noble Friend, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, on 18 June, Official Report, column WS81.
Expenditure on legal aid barrister family advocacy has risen unsustainably from £74 million to nearly £100 million in the last five years—a rise of over 30 per cent. Over the same period, the number of cases has increased by only 11 per cent., so there has been a significant rise in average case costs in a short period. Payments to family barristers now form over 10 per cent. of the entire civil legal aid budget. Legal aid operates within a fixed budget and the department is obliged to take action to remain within that budget, or risk being forced to reduce vital services.
Following the close of our formal consultation in the autumn, we have continued to engage with interested parties to hear their views. We are grateful to respondents for their time. We have listened and changed many of our proposals, and accepted some of the suggestions made by consultees.
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