§ Baroness Gould of Potternewtonasked Her Majesty's Government:
What proposals they have for changes to the 2000–01 department expenditure limits within the Home Secretary's responsibility. [HL2830]
§ Lord Bassam of BrightonSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Departmental Expenditure Limited (DEL), which covers Class IV Vote 1 (Home Office administration, police, probation, immigration and other services, England and Wales) and Vote 2 (Prisons, England and Wales), will be increased by £42,050,000 from £8,068,786,000 to £8,110,836,000.
The changes are the net effect of the following transfers: £1,200,000 to the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (Class II1 Vote 1) in respect of neighbourhood wardens; £20,200,000 from the DEL Reserve for police modernisation; £2,900,000 from the Capital Modernisation Fund for the electronic chipping of goods; and, £20,150,000 from the Capital Modernisation Fund for the national strategy for police information systems.
The increases will be offset by a charge on the Reserve and will not, therefore, add to the planned total of public expenditure.
Changes to the budgeted amount for the Immigration and Nationality Directorate, which includes the costs of dealing with asylum seekers, have yet to be confirmed.