HC Deb 30 March 2000 vol 347 cc223-4W
Mr. David Taylor

To ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions what plans he has to change his departmental expenditure limits for 1999–2000. [117304]

Mr. Prescott

(i) The DETR Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit will be increased by £700,000 from £10,403,990,000 to £10,404,690,000 as a result of a transfer of this amount from the DETR Local Government Departmental Expenditure Limit. There are also changes between the Voted and non-Voted elements of the Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit. The changes are set out in greater detail as follows.

  1. (a) Provision within the non-Voted element of the DETR Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit will be increased by £7,413,000 from £1,697,254,000 to £1,704,667,000. This reflects a transfer of £700,000 from the DETR Local Government Departmental Expenditure Limit, a transfer of £910,000 from Class III, Vote 2 (Planning, roads, local transport and vehicle safety); and £5,803,000 from Class III, Vote 6 (Transport industries).
  2. (b) The transfer of £700,000 from the DETR Local Government Departmental Expenditure Limit to the non-Voted element of the DETR Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit is to provide other capital support to the London Borough of Haringey.
  3. (c) The change for Class III, Vote 2 (Planning, roads, local transport and vehicle safety) is a transfer of £910,000 to the non-Voted element of the DETR Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit for transport Supplementary Credit Approvals.
  4. (d) The change for Class III, Vote 6 (Transport industries) is a transfer of £5,803,000 to the non-Voted element of the DETR Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit to take account of British Rail's revised grant claim for 1999–2000.

(ii) The DETR Local Government Departmental Expenditure Limit will be increased by £720,000 from £34,218,737,000 to £34,219,457,000. This increase is the net effect of a take-up of end year flexibility of £1,420,000 and a transfer of £700,000 to the DETR Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit. The changes are set out in greater detail as follows. (a) Provision within the non-Voted element of the Local Government Departmental Expenditure Limit will be increased by £720,000 from £371,906,000 to £372,626,000. This reflects a take-up of end year flexibility of £1,420,000 for the Local Authority Capital Challenge programme, and a transfer of £700,000 to the DETR Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit for other capital support to the London Borough of Haringey.

The transfers will be offset by transfers or charged to the DEL Reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.