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Resource Change: Administration (total increase of £5,142,000)
Voted: total increase of £7,845,000.
(i) Take-up of £3,642,000 near cash end-year flexibility for various pressures including the implementation of Eddington work, recruitment costs and building costs; and
(ii) A transfer of £4,203,000 from non voted near cash departmental unallocated provision to provide for opening budget allocations agreed in the 2007-08 Business Plan.
Non Voted: total decrease of £2,703,000.
(iii) Take-up of £1,500,000 near cash end-year flexibility for utilisation of a provision in respect of building dilapidations; and
(iv) A transfer of £4,203,000 to voted near cash administration provision.
Resource Change: Programme (total decrease of £33,719,000)
Voted: total decrease of £123,353,000
(i) Take-up of £43,598,000 near cash end-year flexibility (including £17,500,000 from administration entitlement) for Crossrail;
(ii) A transfer of £500,000 near cash to the Scottish Executive for the Rail Environmental Benefit Procurement Scheme;
(iii) A reduction of £150,000,000 non cash Highways Agency impairments reclassified as annually managed expenditure;
(iv) A net transfer of £16,451,000 to non voted provision as follows:
a. £300,000 near cash from Power Shift to the Renewable Fuels Agency;b. £17,587,000 from rail, including £7,740,000 non cash and £4,847,000 non cash switched to near cash (see (v) below); partially offset by:c. £1,436,000 near cash increase to the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency enforcement;(v) £20,000,000 of rail non cash headroom has been converted to near cash, permitted under Treasury guidelines, to fund the following:
a. £2,028,000 for concessionary travel;19 Feb 2008 : Column WS22
Non Voted: total increase of £89,634,000
(i) Take-up of £73,183,000 near cash end-year flexibility for the net operating losses of London and Continental Railways.
(ii) A net transfer of £16,451,000 from voted provision for:
a. £300,000 near cash for the Renewable Fuels Agency;b. £4,847,000 near cash for the utilisation of the following provisions: pensions (£2,847,000); early retirement (£1,500,000); and an HM Revenue and Customs tax liability for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency (£500,000);c. £5,000,000 near cash for shared services;d. £7,740,000 non cash for London and Continental Railways (£6,217,000); Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency cost of capital (£1,394,000); and towards the shared service project depreciation (£129,000); ande. partially offset by £1,436,000 near cash transfer from the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency.Capital Change: (total increase of £641,395,000)
Voted: total increase of £35,651,000
(i) Take-up of £150,000,000 end year flexibility for a capital grant to the Greater London Authority to pass on to Transport for London to provide short term flexibility while the costs associated with Metronet’s administration remain uncertain.
(ii) Net transfer of £114,349,000 to non voted provision consisting of:
a. £58,439,000 from Network Grants to London and Continental Railways;b. £59,951,000 from Local Transport Major Schemes; partially offset by:c. £4,041,000 increase to the Vehicle and Operator Services Agency.Non Voted: total increase of £605,744,000
(i) £304,000,000 reserve claim to part cover a notional charge (of £454,000,000 in total) scoring within capital DEL to reflect the marginal impact on public sector net debt in 2007-08 of costs relating to Metronet in the light of its move into administration.
(ii) Take-up of £187,395,000 end-year flexibility, comprising:
a. £150,000 for the remainder of the notional charge relating to Metronet, as referred to in (i) above; and19 Feb 2008 : Column WS23
Net transfer of £114,349,000 from voted provision consisting of:
a. £58,439,000 for London and Continental Railways to provide cover for their capital expenditure;b. £35,000,000 for the integrated transport block;c. £21,000,000 for UK Trustports; d. £3,951,000 towards General Lighthouse Authority ship lease; partially offset by; e. £4,041,000 to voted provision from Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency receipts.19 Feb 2008 : Column WS24
Department for Work and Pensions: DEL
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department for Work and Pensions (Lord McKenzie of Luton): My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (James Purnell) has made the following Statement.
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Work and Pensions departmental expenditure limit will increase by £60,847,000 from £7,643,047,406 to £7,703,894,406 and the administration budget will decrease by £88,000 from £5,816,364,000 to £5,816,276,000.
Within the departmental expenditure limit change, the impact on resource and capital is as set out in the following table:
| Change £k | New Departmental Expenditure Limit £k | |||||
| Voted | Non-voted | Total | Voted | Non-voted | Total | |
- 1 Depreciation, which forms part of resource departmental expenditure limit, is excluded from the total departmental expenditure limit since the capital departmental expenditure limit includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
Resource Departmental Expenditure Limit
The change in the resource departmental expenditure limit arises from:
(i) A Machinery Of Government transfer of the Disability Rights Commission (sponsored by the Department for Work and Pensions) to the Commission for Equality and Human Rights (sponsored by Government Equalities Office).
(ii) The Disability Rights Commission is an executive non-departmental public body. The resource departmental expenditure limit transactions were a reduction in voted administration of £88,000 (near-cash) and a reduction in non-voted other current £20,000,000 (near-cash).
(iii) A drawdown of £45,000,000 other current end of year flexibility to support non-cash expenditure.
Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit
The change in the capital departmental expenditure limit arises from:
(iv) A budget transfer from the Northern Ireland Executive of £4,935,000 in respect of expenditure incurred by the Pension Transformation Programme.
(v) A drawdown of £31,000,000 end of year flexibility to support expenditure on the Pensions Change Programme.
The movement in the administration cost limit arises from the changes to the resource departmental expenditure limit as noted at items i and ii above.
Movements in Non-Voted Resource Expenditure
The changes in non-voted resource expenditure arise from the changes to the resource departmental expenditure limit as noted at items i and ii above. In addition the following adjustments:
(vi) A reduction in non-voted resource expenditure of £104,900,000 offset by an increase in voted resource expenditure of £104,900,000 in respect of the allocation of the departmental unallocated provision to support the Child Support Agency Operational Improvement Plan.
(vii) An increase in non-voted expenditure of £1,461,000 offset by a decrease in voted expenditure of £1,461,000 in respect of increased spend of Working Ventures (UK) Limited.
(viii) An increase in non-voted expenditure of £244,000 offset by a decrease in voted expenditure of £244,000 in respect of increased spend of the Pensions Advisory Service.
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(ix) An increase in non-voted expenditure of £189,000 offset by a decrease in voted expenditure of £189,000 in respect of decreased spend of the Pensions Ombudsman.
(x) A reduction in non-voted expenditure of £839,000 offset by an increase in voted expenditure of £839,000 in respect of decreased spend of the Pensions Regulator.
(xi) An increase in non-voted expenditure of £6,532,000 offset by a decrease in voted expenditure of £6,532,000 in respect of planned expenditure for the Personal Accounts Delivery Authority.
(xii) A reduction in non-voted expenditure of £600,000 offset by an increase in voted expenditure of £600,000 in respect of an adjustment to the classification of spend for Better Government for Older People.
Movements in Non-Voted Capital Expenditure
The changes in non-voted capital relate to the following adjustments:
(xiii) An increase in non-voted expenditure of £5,000 offset by a decrease in voted expenditure of £5,000 in respect of increased spend of the Pensions Advisory Service.
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(xiv) An increase in non-voted expenditure of £17,000 offset by a decrease in voted expenditure of £17,000 in respect of increased spend of the Pensions Ombudsman.
(xv) An increase in non-voted expenditure of £474,000 offset by a decrease in voted expenditure of £474,000 in respect of increased spend of the Pensions Regulator.
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