HL Deb 15 November 2004 vol 666 cc38-9WS
Lord McIntosh of Haringey

My right honourable Friend the Paymaster General (Dawn Primarolo) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, H M Customs and Excise departmental expenditure limit will be increased by £75,736,000 from £1,331,872,000 to £1,407,608,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £34,476,000 from £1,184,015,000 to £1,218,491,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

£000s
New DEL
Change Voted Non-voted Total
Resource 71,966 1,327,032 1,327,032
Capital 3,770 79,576 1,000 80,576
Depreciation* -44,780 -44,780
Total 75,736 1,361,828 1,000 1,362,828
*Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from: administration costs increases resulting from the take up of £41,914,000 end year flexibility entitlement (EYF) as set out in the Public Expenditure Outturn White Paper (CM 6293). This is partially offset by a transfer of £1,645,000 to H M Treasury to meet the costs of the transfer of policy work and virement from administration costs to programme expenditure of £5,793,000; and programme expenditure changes relating to: the draw down of £25,000,000 to cover additional costs of lorry road user charging, which formed a part of spending review 2004; an award from the Efficiency Challenge Fund of £300,000; transfers from the Home Office to meet additional costs of anti-terrorism work of £2,336,000, funding from the Recovered Assets Incentivisation Fund of £4,161,000 to meet operational and legal costs and £40,000 towards the CIDA project. Further there is a transfer to the Home Office of £140,000 in support of two specific projects and electromechanical services.

The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from the draw down of capital EYF amounting to £3,680,000 and a transfer from the Home Office of £90,000 to support anti-terrorism work.