§ The Secretary of State for Defence (Mr. Geoffrey Hoon)Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimates, the Ministry of Defence Departmental Expenditure Limits will be increased by £387,844,000 from £24,596,969,000 to £24,984,813,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
changes being proposed to the Department for Education and Skills' Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) (including the Office for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools (OFSTED) which has a separate Estimate), which subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary Estimate, will be increased by £157,494,000 form £23,342,872,000 to £23,500,366,000 and to the Administration Costs limits which will be changed as follows.
Original £000 Change £000 Revised £000 DfES (RfRl) 208,726 -1,185 207,541 Sure Start (RfR2) 4,099 +1,351 5,450 Children's Fund (RfR3) 4,435 -430 4,005 Within the DEL change, the impact on the resources element and the capital element are as set out in the following table:
increase in the Appropriation in Aid by £1,800,000 to recycle rent receipts from the National College for School Leadership; the net transfer to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of £1,250,000 for Community Champions, Government Offices, Youth Work Activity and regional co-ordinators of Adult Basic Skills training; the transfer to the National Assembly for Wales of £557,000 for Higher Education Hardship (Access) Funds; the net transfer from the Department of Trade and Industry of £434,000 for Inward Investments, Community Finance and Learning Initiative and Engineering and Marine Training Authority Marine Skills; the transfer from the Office for National Statistics of £97,000 for the Neighbourhood Statistics programme; the virement of £59,247,000 to non-voted
15WSDEL for the Learning and Skills Council; and the correction of an over allocation of funds through a return to the Invest Save Budget of £3,000.
The £1,185,000 reduction in the Administration Costs limit for RfR 1 arises from the transfer of £871,000 to the Department for Work and Pensions for the transfer of responsibility for Ranmoor Hall, Sheffield and support for International Relations; the transfer of £411,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Government Offices and for regional co-ordinators for Adult Basic Skills training; and the transfer of £97,000 from the Office for National Statistics for the Neighbourhood Statistics programme.
The reduction in the voted element of resource DEL for RfR2 arises from the transfer of £759,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to contribute to the accommodation and the provision of central services in the Government Offices.
The £1,351,000 increase in the Administration Costs limit for RfR2 arises from the virement from current grants.
The reduction in the voted element of resource DEL for RfR3 arises from the transfer of £430,000 from administration costs to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister to contribute to the accommodation and the provision of central services in the Government Offices.
The £73,375,000 increase in the voted element of the capital DEL for RfRl arises from the draw down of £77,500,000 from the Capital Modernisation Fund for direct grants to schools; the virement of £4,000,000 to non voted DEL to the Learning and Skills Council; the transfer of £100,000 to the Department for Work and Pension for the transfer of responsibility for Ranmoor Hall, Sheffield; and the correction of an over allocation of funds through a return to the Invest Save Budget of £25,000.
The £66,897,000 increase in the non-voted element of the resource DEL for RfRl arises from the virement of £59,247,000 from voted DEL to the Learning and Skills Council; the transfer from the Department for Work and Pensions of £3,600,000 to the Adult Learning Inspectorate for inspections of New Deal training providers; the transfer from the Home Office to the Higher Education Funding Council for England of £3,250,000 for the Active Community Fund; and the transfer from the Department for Transport of £800,000 for a project to address the training and skills in the Road Haulage Industry.
The £11,500,000 increase in the non-voted element of the capital DEL for RfRl arises from the draw down of £7,500,000 from the Capital Modernisation Fund to the Learning and Skills Council for further education and the virement of £4,000,000 from voted DEL to the Learning and Skills Council.
The increases will be offset by transfers or charges to the DEL Reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of Public expenditure'.