HC Deb 05 March 2004 vol 418 cc88-90WS
The Secretary of State for Education and Skills (Mr. Charles Clarke)

Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Education and Skills DEL (including the Office for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools (OFSTED) which has a separate estimate) will be increased by £652,759,000 from £26,142,100,000 to £26,794,859,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £18,245,000 from £250,660,000 to £268,905,000.

Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

Teenage Pregnancy Fund and the Children's Trust; the net transfer to the Home Office of £880,000 for Prison Education; the transfer to the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs of £500,000 for the school milk subsidy scheme; the transfer to the Department of Trade and Industry of £279,000 for the Women's Resource Centre and the School Teachers Pay Review Body; the transfer to the Department for Work and Pensions of £93,000 for the Parental involvement in Action Team; the net transfer in from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of £1,303,000 for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit; the take up of £95,816,000 End of Year Flexibility (EYF) provision; the take up of £761,000 for the Education in Prisons scheme and the take up of Invest to Save Budget of £100,000 for the Core Cluster Pilot project. The transfer to the Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England (OFSTED) of £75,000 for the project on best practice to food and nutrition in primary schools and early years, the net virement of £4,802,000 from RfR2 for Standards Fund Grants, and the net virement of £2,300,000 to RfR3 for Children's Fund Grants are departmental DEL neutral.

The £215,797,000 increase in RfR2; arises from the take up of £221,599,000 End of Year Flexibility (EYF) provision for Sure Start administrative expenditure (£468,000) and for Sure Start programmes (£221,131,000); the DEL neutral virements of £4,802,000 to RFR1 for Standards Fund Grant payments and the £1,000,000 virement to RfR3 Children's Fund for Children and Young People programmes.

The £85,463,000 increase in RfR3 arises from the take up of £82,163,000 End of Year Flexibility provision for Children's Fund administration (£1,090,000) and for programme expenditure (£81,073,000); the net DEL neutral virements of £2,300,000 from RfR1 and £1,000,000 from RfR2 for Children's Fund Current Grants.

The £1,217,000 increase in the Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England (OFSTED) arises from a £75,000 DEL neutral transfer from RfRl for the whole school project on best practice to food and nutrition in primary schools and early years; the £450,000 virement to capital and the increase of £1,592,000 due to the reclassification of voted A-in-A to Non-Operating A-in-A.

ADMINISTRATION COST LIMITS

The £18,245,000 increase in the Administration Cost limit arises from a £12,796,000 increase in the Administration Cost limit for RfRl from the take up of £14,942,000 end of year flexibility; the residual machinery of Government transfer in from the Department of Health of £1,733,000; the transfer in from the Home Office of £248,000 for shared services and residual machinery of Government changes and the transfer out of £47,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister for Regional Government Office core work agenda; the decrease in admin costs from an increase in admin receipts of £280,000 for matching secondment expenditure and the DEL neutral virement of £3,800,000 to RfR2 Sure Start Administrative expenditure.

The increase in the administration cost limit for RfR2 of £4,268,000 arises from the take up of £468,000 end of year flexibility and the DEL neutral virement of £3,800,000 to RfR2 Sure Start administrative expenditure.

The £1,181,000 increase in the administration cost limit for RfR3 arises from the take up of £1,090,000 end of year flexibility and the reclassification of £91,000 programme to administrative expenditure.

NON-VOTED RESOURCE DEL

The £799,393,000 increase in Non-Voted Resource DEL arises from a £312,996,000 virement of Voted Resource DEL for various non-Departmental Public Bodies (of which £202,638,000 is for the Learning Skills Council for the delivery of key programmes: Employer Training Pilots and for the Higher Education Excellence Challenge); the take up of end of year flexibility of £210,815,000 (of which £136,900,000 is to the Learning Skills Council for current grants); the £259,638,000 increase in Higher Education Funding Council for England's expenditure with matching voted Resource A-in-A for Science Research Investment Fund and Higher Education Innovation Fund programmes; the transfer in from the Department of Health of £16,745,000 to the Higher Education Funding Council for England to fund various hospital and university projects; the draw down of £872,000 provision for Adult Learning Inspectorate and the Learning Skills Council and the virement of £1,673,000 to non-voted capital.

CAPITAL DEL

The change in the capital element of the DEL of £73,818,000 arises from a £60,988,000 increase in the voted element of the capital DEL and an increase of £12,830,000 in the non-voted element of the capital DEL.

VOTED CAPITAL DEL

The £60,988,000 increase to the voted element of the Capital DEL arises from a£59,219,000 increase in RfRl Voted Capital from a virement increase of £44,370,000 from Voted Resource DEL; from the £700,000 decrease to Non-Voted Capital for the Student Loans Company, from the Machinery of Government transfer from the Department of Health of £171,000; from the take-up of End of Year flexibility of £7,289,000 and the DEL neutral virement of £8,089,000 from RfR2 Sure Start.

The £2,911,000 increase in RfR2 Voted Capital, from the take up of £11,000,000 End of Year Flexibility (EYF) provision for Sure Start Local Authority Capital Grants and the DE L neutral virement of £8,089,000 to RfRl for Standards Fund Capital grants to Local Authorities.

The £1,142,000 decrease in OFSTED Voted capital, from the classification of £1,592,000 Voted A-in-A receipts to Non-Operating capital receipts and the virement of £450,000 voted resource to voted capital.

NON-VOTED CAPITAL DEL

The £12,830,000 increase to the non-voted element of Capital DEL arises from the take-up of EYF of £7,457,000 (of which £3,957,000 to the Learning Skills Council for the delivery of capital programmes); the virement of £1,673,000 of NDPB resource for capital activity; the virement of £700,000 voted capital for Student Loans Company capital programmes; the virement of £208,000 from voted resource and the In-Year take up of £2,792,000.