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The change in the net cash requirement is a result of a forecast decrease in end-year creditors that is higher than the original forecast in the main estimate.

Office of Gas and Electricity Markets:Winter Supplementary Estimate 2007-08

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Office of Gas and Electricity Market's DEL will be increased by £1,000 from £1,651,000 to £1,652,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £211,000 from £491,000 to £702,000.

		New DEL
£'000	Change	Voted	Non-voted	Total
Resource DEL	1	702	0	702
Of which: *
Administration budget	1	702	0	702
Near-cash in RDEL	1	-93	991	898
Capital DEL **	0	950	0	950
Depreciation ***	0	-1000	0	-1000
Total	0	652	0	652

^* 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 a token increase in administration costs to cover an increase of £356,000 in expenditure offset by

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an increase of £355,000 in A in A. Additionally, there is a reclassification of £210,000 from programme to administration costs.

There is no change in the capital element of the DEL.

Department for Children, Schools and Families: DEL

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Children, Schools and Families (Lord Adonis): Today my right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (Mr Ed Balls) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

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Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Children, Schools and Families departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be decreased by £14,106,193,000 from £64,665,498,000 to £50,559,305,000, the administration cost budget will be decreased by £45,221,000 from £237,698,000 to £192,477,000. The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills (OFSTED) which has a separate estimate and DEL, will be increased by £16,790,000 from £205,000,000 to £221,790,000; the administration cost budget will be increased by £485,000 from £28,470,000 to £28,955,000.

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

	Resources			Capital***
	Change	New DEL	Of which:		Change	New DEL	Of which:
			Voted	Non-voted			Voted	Non- voted
	£'000	£'000	£'000	£'000	£'000	£'000	£'000	£'000
RfR 1	-12,934,650	43,318,471	42,329,619	988,852	-1,166,643	5,296,255	3,835,171	1,461,084
RfR 2	-4,900	1,223,054	1,223,054	0	0	531,425	531,425	0
RfR 3	0	190,100	190,100	0	0	0	0	0
DCSF Total	-12,939,550	44,731,625	43,742,773	988,852	-1,166,643	5,827,680	4,366,596	1,461,084
OFSTED	16,409	220,809	220,809	0	381	981	981	0
Sub Total	-12,923,141	44,952,434	43,963,582	988,852	-1,166,262	5,828,661	4,367,577	1,461,084
**Of which Admin Budget	-44,736	221,432	221,432	0	0	0	0	0
Near-cash in RDEL	-11,498,273	44,965,105	43,941,361	1,023,744	0	0	0	0
Depreciation*	24,200	-11,099	-9,943	-1,156	0	0	0	0
Total	-12,898,941	44,941,335	43,953,639	987,696	-1,166,262	5,828,661	4,367,577	1,461,084

*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 total of '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.

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