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Thursday 15 November 2007
Attorney-General: DEL
The Attorney-General (Baroness Scotland of Asthal): Subject to parliamentary approval of the winter supplementary estimate, the Attorney-General’s DEL will be increased by £39,479,000 from £717,497,000 to £756,976,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £7,382,000 from £112,261,000 to £119,643,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as 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 Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) element of the Attorney-General’s DEL will be increased by £14,815,000 from £631,537,000 to £646,352,000. The administration budget will be reduced by £112,000 from £57,415,000 to £57,303,000.
The change in the CPS’s DEL arises from:
the take-up of £7,000,000 of the departmental unallocated provision to support increased expenditure on the prosecution of criminal cases;an increase due to a budgetary transfer of £1,291,000 programme from the Ministry of Justice to provide support to local criminal justice boards (LCJBs);an increase of £539,000 programme DEL transferred from the Ministry of Justice to provide additional resources from Criminal Justice Information Technology (CJIT) to fund the case progression tool, “Progress”;an increase of £2,364,000 programme for ExiSSrl from CJIT to allow the electronic transfer of case data between the police and CPS;an increase of £1,834,000 programme from the Ministry of Justice to provide additional resources as agreed in the CJIT delivery plan to fund enhancements to the witness management system (WMS);an increase of £7,300,000 programme due to the reallocation of resource DEL budgetary cover from the Ministry of Justice to provide additional resources to help to fund the Compass Case Management System IT programme;15 Nov 2007 : Column WS40
The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) element of the Attorney-General’s DEL will be increased by £17,145,000 from £37,669,000 to £54,814,000. The administration budget will increase from £24,969 to £31,635.
The changes in the SFO’s DEL arise from:
the take-up of £2,000,000 administration resource end-year flexibility;an increase of £13,649,000 from our two Block Buster Cases reserves; £4,670,000 to our administration budget; £8,679,000 for our programme budget and £300,000 for our capital budget;a decrease of £4,000 administration resources due to the reallocation of resource DEL budgetary cover, within the Attorney-General’s resource DEL, from the Serious Fraud Office to HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitors. This is required to help to fund the provision of administrative services to the Attorney-General by the Attorney-General’s Office;a cash-neutral change to our administration budget of £300,000, being both increase in costs and increase in revenue as a consequence of expected proceeds of crime income; and the take-up of £1,700,000 capital end-year flexibility to meet the cost of additional spend.The Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office’s (RCPO) element of the Attorney-General’s DEL will be reduced by £317,000 from £36,726,000 to £36,409,000. This reduction will occur within the administration budget, which will be reduced from £18,253,000 to £ 17,936,000.
The change in RCPO’s DEL arises from:
a decrease of £317,000 administration resources due to the reallocation of resource DEL budgetary cover, within the Attorney-General's resource DEL, from the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office to HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitors.15 Nov 2007 : Column WS41
The HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor (TSol) element of the Attorney-General's DEL will be increased by £836,000 from £16,221,000 to £17,057,000. This increase will occur within the administration budget, which will increase from £11,624,000 to £ 12,769,000.
The change in TSol's DEL arises from:
administration cost changes in respect of a reallocation of resource DEL budgetary cover, within the Attorney-General's resource DEL, of £4,000 from the Serious Fraud Office (SFO), £317,000 from the Revenue and Customs Prosecutions Office (RCPO) and £112,000 from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) to the Treasury Solicitors Department to meet the cost of policy support to the Attorney-General provided by the Attorney-General's Office (AGO);15 Nov 2007 : Column WS42
Cabinet Office: DEL
Lord Davies of Oldham: My right honourable friend the Minister for the Cabinet Office (Ed Miliband) has made the following Ministerial Statement.
Subject to parliamentary approval of the winter supplementary estimate 2007-08, the Cabinet Office total DEL has changed from the amount voted in the main estimate 2007-08.
As a result, the Cabinet Office total DEL has increased by £22,683,000 from £375,914,000 to £398,597,000.
The impact on resource DEL (RDEL) and capital DEL (CDEL) is set out in the following table:
| £’000 | Main Estimate DEL | Changes | Winter Supplementary Estimate New DEL | ||||||
| Voted | Non-voted | Total | Voted | Non-voted | Total | 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.
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