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The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from:

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			£’000s
Sections = relevant section of the Home Office 2007-08 winter supplementary estimate			Capital
Total comprising:			-575,239
Machinery of government changes			-560,439
On 29 March 2007, the Prime Minister announced that the functions and support costs comprising the National Offender Management Service (NOMS) and the Office for Criminal Justice Reform (OCJR) would transfer to the newly formed Ministry of Justice with effect from 9 May 2007. Details of the capital DEL transfers are set out below:
NOMS voted DEL, of which:
NOMS HQ (Section G)			-474,799
Prisons—public sector (Section I)			-16,304
Probation HQ (Section J)			-1,800
NOMS non-voted DEL, of which:
Youth Justice Board (Section AB)			-20,000
OCJR voted DEL, of which:
Criminal Justice Reform (Section F)			-37,441
OCJR non-voted DEL, of which:
Criminal Cases Review Commission (Section AD)			-95
Central Corporate Services voted DEL, of which:
Central Service (Section M)			-10,000
Transfers to other government departments:			-14,800
Capital grants from Police (Section A) to the Ministry of Justice representing a transfer of CJSIT ring-fenced funds			-12,200
Capital from Central Services (Section M) to the Ministry of Justice representing a contribution towards building improvement works at a shared service centre			-2,600
Planning round changes:
Planning round changes made to reflect the delegated budgets prior to the MOG changes:
Criminal Justice Reform (Section F)			515
NOMS HQ (Section G)			44,296
Prisons—public sector (Section I)			304
Probation HQ (Section J)			1,100
Border and Immigration Agency (Section K)			31,485
Identity and Passport Agency (Section L)			-73,700
Central Services (Section M)			6,000
Police grants (Section O)			-10,000

Ministry of Defence: DEL

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Defence (Baroness Taylor of Bolton): My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Des Browne) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Ministry of Defence departmental expenditure limits (DEL) will be increased by £2,033,379 from £33,561,172 to £35,594,551,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table.

					£000s
	Change		New DEL
	Voted	Non- Voted	Voted	Non- voted	Total
Resource	1,889,379	-	34,437,544	283,088	34,720,632
Near-Cash in RDEL	1,889,379	440,000	23,819,675	480,943	24,300,618
Capital	144,000	-	7,691,626	744	7,692,370
Depreciation*	-	-	-6,618,451	-200,000	-6,818,451
Total	2,033,379	-	35,510,719	83,832	35,594,551

*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 changes to the resource and capital elements of the DEL arise from:

the take-up of normal resource end-year flexibility of £21,000,000 and capital resource end-year flexibility of £65,000,000;resource transfers in from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) of £4,863,000 as a contribution to the National Meteorological Programme and Severe Weather Warning Service, £200,000 from the Cabinet Office in respect of future funding arrangements for the expansion of the Parliamentary Counsel Office, and £42,525,000 from the Security & Intelligence Services Agency in respect of support service funding for GCHQ;a resource transfer out of £149,000 to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport as a contribution to the Leeds Armouries Museum Pattern Room staffing costs, and a resource transfer of £4,000,000 out to the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform as a contribution to the global partnership against the spread of weapons and materials of mass destruction;to use £55,000,000 of additional income that will be paid to the Consolidated Fund with a corresponding increase in direct RDEL available to the department;to increase Request for Resources 2 by £1,315,000,000 resource near-cash DEL and £604,000,000 capital DEL to reflect the costs of peace-keeping in Iraq and Afghanistan;to transfer £70,000,000 from voted capital DEL to non-voted near-cash resource DEL to cover planned cash release of provision payments;to transfer £455,000,000 capital resource to direct resource within RfR1 relating to single-use military equipment (SUME) flexibility;to recognise a grant-in-aid payment to the Royal Irish Benevolent Fund of £60,000 by increasing non-budget expenditure and reducing near-cash resource DEL.

The changes to resource DEL and capital DEL will lead to an increased net cash requirement of £2,158,439,000.

Ministry of Justice: DEL

The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Ministry of Justice (Lord Hunt of Kings Heath): My right honourable friend the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Ministry of Justice (MoJ), Northern Ireland Court Service and the National Archives total departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased as follows:

Total DEL for Ministry of Justice (RfR1, 2 and 3) will be increased by £5,843,241,000 from £3,784,762,000

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to £9,628,003,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £189,180,000 from £523,536,000 to £712,716,000.

Total DEL for the Northern Ireland Court Service (NICS) will be reduced by £1,749,000 from £132,319,000 to £130,570,000 and there is no change in administration budget.

Total DEL for the National Archives (TNA) will be increased by £3,379,000 from £44,161,000 to £47,540,000 and the administration budget will be reduced by £43,711,000 due to a reclassification from administration to programme budget.

Within the total DEL change for Ministry of Justice (RfR1, 2 and 3), the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:

					£'000
	Change		New DEL
	Voted	Non- voted	Voted	Non- voted	Total
Resource DEL:	4,057,099	1,324,762	5,807,626	3,356,5629,	164,188
Of which:
Administration *	189,180	0	712,716	0	712,716
Near-cash in resource DEL	3,189,394	1,599,549	4,657,358	3,866,348	8,523,706
Capital **	636,913	27,055	771,648	30,055	801,703
Depreciation ***	-196,635	-5,953	-331,934	-5,954	-337,888
Total	4,497,377	1,345,864	6,247,340	3,380,663	9,628,003

* 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 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.

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