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Written Ministerial Statements

Tuesday 24 November 2009

Business, Innovation and Skills

Chief Construction Adviser

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills (Ian Lucas): The Department for Business Innovation and Skills, together with the Office of Government Commerce, is today announcing that Paul Morrell OBE will be appointed to the new role of Government Chief Adviser on Construction.

The Government Chief Construction Adviser is an independent role, but will report jointly to BIS and HM Treasury Ministers. The remit of the role includes:

chairing the new Construction Collaborative Category Board, which will build on the existing Public Sector Construction Clients Forum, to drive the implementation and further development of best value construction procurement;

leading the low carbon construction innovation and growth team that will assess the key barriers to growth in the UK's low carbon construction sector to ensure the UK industry is well placed to serve developing needs and markets;

chairing an enhanced sustainable construction strategy delivery board to help ensure policy regarding the industry is effectively co-ordinated;

working with the industry, through the Strategic Forum for Construction, to deliver the industry improvement agenda including the Construction Commitments;

promoting innovation in the sector, working closely with the Technology Strategy Board and other funding bodies; and

co-ordinating the Whitehall response to reports featuring construction.

Paul Morrell was previously senior partner of construction consultants Davis Langdon and also Deputy Chair of the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment

Departmental Expenditure Limit (2009-10)

The Minister for Business, Innovation and Skills (Mr. Pat McFadden): Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills' DEL will be increased by £19,906,781,000 from £1,922,920,000 to £21,829,701,000 as a consequence of the merger between the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills. The administration budget will be increased by £84,524,000 from £272,949,000 to £357,473,000.

Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:

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	Change		New DEL
	Voted	Non-Voted	Voted	Non-Voted	Total
Resource (£000)	-4,037,427	21,292,300	-3,515,015	22,354,754	18,839,739
of which:
Administration(*) budget	84,524		357,473		357,473
Near cash in Resource DEL(*)	-5,337,748	21,062,238	-4,937,070	22,105,386	17,168,316
Capital (£000)	-95,993	2,747,901	-486,854	3,476,816	2,989,962
Less Depreciation(*) (£000)	-5,112	-180,116	-59,448	-201,279	-260,727
Total (£000)	-4,138,532	23,860,085	-4,061,317	25,630,291	21,568,974
(*)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 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 the resource element of the DEL arises from:

RfR1

i) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £114,024,000 voted near cash and £317,335,000 of non-voted near cash in respect of Knowledge Transfer and Innovation and central programmes;

ii) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £3,762,000 voted depreciation and £7,829,000 other voted non cash and £168,000 non-voted depreciation and £23,000 of other non-voted non cash in respect of Knowledge Transfer and Innovation and central programmes;

iii) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £400,000 non-voted near cash and negative £400,000 non-voted non cash in respect of research establishments provisions;

iv) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £40,624,000 non-voted near cash in respect of the Departmental Unallocated Provision;

v) transfer of £1,027,000 voted DEL and £4,732,000 non-voted DEL from the Department for Work and Pensions in respect of Business Link activities to tackle long-term unemployment;

vi) virement of £43,700,000 from non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision to voted expenditure in respect of the Automotive Scrappage Scheme;

vii) virement of £7,300,000 from voted Strategic Investment Fund capital expenditure to non-voted resource expenditure in respect of the Technology Strategy Board.

viii) virement of £2,500,000 from voted expenditure in respect of Business to non-voted Regional Development Agency expenditure;

ix) virement of £37,000,000 of non-voted expenditure from the Learning and Skills Council (RfR3) to Regional Development Agencies (RfR1) voted expenditure in respect of the Train to Gain programme;

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x) virement of £1,700,000 from voted expenditure in respect of Business Link Marketing to non-voted Regional Development Agency expenditure;

xi) transfer of £2,629,000 from the Home Office in respect of Migration Impact Funding;

xii) virement of £138,000 from voted central programmes to the non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision.

Also within the change to resource DEL, the changes to the Administration budget are:

(RfR1)

i) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £69,299,000 voted near cash, £1,350,000 voted depreciation and £250,000 of other voted non cash;

ii) reclassification to administration from non-voted programme Departmental Unallocated Provision of £13,625,000.

RfR2

i) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £116,742,000 voted near cash and £2,732,835,000 of non-voted near cash in respect of Science programmes;

ii) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £138,960,000 non-voted depreciation and £54,600,000 other non-voted non cash in respect of Science programmes;

iii) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £27,332,000 non-voted near cash and £2,511,000 non-voted depreciation in respect of the Departmental Unallocated Provision;

iv) virement of £287,000 non-voted Departmental Unallocated provision to voted Research-Based Initiatives.

RfR3

i) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of a net negative £5,763,198,000 voted near cash and £18,038,714,000 of non-voted near cash in respect of Education programmes;

ii) a Machinery of Government transfer from the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills of £1,331,730,000 other voted non cash and £16,624,000 non-voted depreciation and a net negative £27,024,000 of other non-voted non cash in respect of Education programmes;

iii) transfer of £24,073,000 from the Ministry of Justice in respect of prison education and offender learning;

iv) transfer of £222,000 from the Ministry of Justice in respect of Government Skills;

v) utilisation of £384,000 from the non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision for voted Government Skills;

vi) virement of £60,000 to the non-voted Departmental Unallocated Provision from voted International programmes;

vii) virement of £10,000,000 to non-voted capital from non-voted resource in respect of the Learning and Skills Council;

viii) virement of £37,000,000 of non-voted expenditure from the Learning and Skills Council to the Regional Development Agencies (RfR1) voted expenditure in respect of the Train to Gain programme;

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ix) increase in voted receipts for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills of £6,211,000 from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, offset by an increase in the UK Commission for Employment and Skills non-voted resource DEL;

x) increase in voted receipts for the Student Loans Company of £503,000 from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, offset by an increase in the Student Loans Company non-voted resource DEL;

xi) increase in voted receipts for the Higher Education Funding Council for England of £2,344,000 from the Department for Children, Schools and Families, offset by an increase in the Higher Education Funding Council for England non-voted resource DEL;

xii) increase in voted receipts for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills of £1,300,000 from the Department for Work and Pensions, offset by an increase in the UK Commission for Employment and Skills non-voted resource DEL;

xiii) Increase in voted receipts for the Higher Education Funding Council for England of £502,000 from the Department of Health, offset by an increase in the Higher Education Funding Council for England non-voted resource DEL;

xiv) increase in voted receipts for Investors in People (IiP) of £70,000 from the Department of Health, offset by an increase in the Investors in People (IiP) non-voted resource DEL;

xv) increase in voted receipts for the Commission for Employment and Skills of £250,000 from the Cabinet Office, offset by an increase in the Commission for Employment and Skills non-voted resource DEL;

xvi) increase in voted receipts for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills of £566,000 from the devolved Administration for Scotland, offset by an increase in the UK Commission for Employment and Skills non-voted resource DEL;

xvii) increase in voted receipts for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills of £373,000 from the devolved Administration for Wales, offset by an increase in the UK Commission for Employment and Skills non-voted resource DEL;

xviii) increase in voted receipts for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills of £243,000 from the devolved Administration for Northern Ireland, offset by an increase in the UK Commission for Employment and Skills non-voted resource DEL;

xix) virement of £24,943,000 from voted to non-voted expenditure relating to the Learning and Skills Council;

xx) virement of £374,000 from non-voted to voted expenditure relating to the Higher Education Funding Council for England;

xxi) virement of £1,260,000 from non-voted to voted expenditure relating to the Student Loans Company;

xxii) virement of £2,461,000 from voted to non-voted expenditure relating to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills;

xxiii) virement of £32,000 from voted to non-voted expenditure relating to the Sector Skills Development Agency;

xxiv) transfer of £400,000 from the Department for Children, Schools and Families for the College Sector.

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