The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Home Office (Lord West of Spithead): My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department (Alan Johnson) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Home Office's Departmental Expenditure Limits for 2009-10 will be increased by £135,354,000 from £10,242,220,000 to £10,377,574,000 and the administration budget will be reduced by £276,293,000 from £675,540,000 to £399,247,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table.
Change (£,000)
New DEL (£,000)
Voted
Non-voted
Voted
Non-voted
Total
Resource DEL
46,564
(85,434)
8,589,149
980,335
9,569,484
of which:
Administration budget*
(241,071)
(35,222)
246,339
152,908
399,247
Near cash in RDEL*
41,153
(92,736)
8,418,215
930,329
9,348,544
Capital**
189,300
(300)
726,561
280,520
1,007,081
Less depreciation***
(4,976)
(9,800)
(133,867)
(65,124)
(198,991)
Total
230,888
(95,534)
9,181,843
1,195,731
10,377,574
* 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.
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** Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets.
*** Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from total DEL since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
(a)
Total (£,000)
o/w near cash (£,000)
o/w Admin (£,000)
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
(38,870)
(51,583)
(276,293)
Classification Changes:
(37,944)
(37,944)
(262,836)
Treatment of recording employee benefits in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) moves from AME to programme DEL. The sections affected are:
Identity and Passport Service (section F).
500
500
UK Border Agency (section E).
453
453
Central Services (section G).
59
59
Police (section A).
28
28
Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (section D).
16
16
Programme switched to capital within Police (section A) to meet forecast capital expenditure.
(9,000)
(9,000)
Programme switched to capital within the Departmental Unallocated Provision (DUP) to meet forecast capital expenditure. See section (b) for the capital DUP drawdown.
(30,000)
(30,000)
Re-classification of admin into programme as a result of the winter supplementary machinery of government transfer from HM Revenue & Customs.
(262,836)
Transfers to other government departments:
(29,598)
(29,247)
(14,792)
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Admin from Central Services (section G) to the Ministry of Justice to fund shared central support expenditure.
(14,792)
(14,441)
(14,792)
Programme from the DUP to fund Migration Impact expenditure to the following departments:
Department for Business Innovation and Skills
(5,371)
(5,371)
Department for Children Schools and Families
(2,854)
(2,854)
Department of Health
(2,854)
(2,854)
Department for Communities and Local Government
(2,854)
(2,854)
Reduction in programme in the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (section D) representing a decrease in the balance of counter terrorism funding returned to the Home Office by the Cabinet Office.
(600)
(600)
Programme from Central Services (section G) to the Ministry of Justice for science and technology costs.
(273)
(273)
Transfers from other government departments:
1,232
1,232
1,232
Admin from the Cabinet Office to Central Services (section G) for the Parliamentary Counsel Office.
856
856
856
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Increase in admin in Central Services (section G) following the reversal of a previous transfer to the Ministry of Justice for payroll services.
376
376
376
End Year Flexibility:
17,051
17,051
0
Programme to section E to meet UKBA's strategic objective to "secure our borders and control migration for the benefit of our country".
17,051
17,051
Adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS):
10,389
(2,675)
103
Increase in programme for the UK Border Agency (section E) to reflect the accounting treatment of finance leases under IFRS.
10,308
(3,370)
Change in admin and programme for the UK Border Agency (section E) as a result of a revised forecast of the cost of reporting employee benefits in accordance with IFRS.
81
695
103
(b)
Capital Total (£,000)
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from:
189,000
End Year Flexibility:
150,000
Capital to the Office for Security and counter Terrorism (section D) to meet strategic delivery objective 'Protect the public from terrorism'.
68,555
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Capital to the Police (section A) to meet the strategic delivery objective 'Lead visible, responsive and accountable policing'.
50,953
Capital to the United Kingdom Border Agency (section E) to meet strategic delivery objective 'Secure our borders and control migration for the benefit of the country'.
30,492
Classification changes:
39,000
Programme switched to capital within Police (section A) to meet forecast capital expenditure.
9,000
Drawdown of capital in the DUP to meet the latest forecast budgeted expenditure in the following areas:
Office for Security and Counter Terrorism (section D).
4,811
Office for Security and Counter Terrorism grants (section K).
