HL Deb 15 November 2004 vol 666 cc40-1WS
Lord McIntosh of Haringey

My honourable friend the Financial Secretary (Stephen Timms) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Office for National Statistics DEL will decrease by £422,000 from £178,426,000 to £178,004,000 and the administration costs limit will decrease by £417,000 from £153,677,000 to £153,260,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:

£000s
New DEL
Change Voted Non-voted Total
Resource -417 153,339 153,339
Capital -5 24,665 24,665
Depreciation* -13,837 -13,837
Total -422 164,167 164,167
*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 a transfer of £917,000 in total to other government departments in relation to work to develop the neighbourhood statistics programme. The transfers comprise £518,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, £195,000 to the Department of Health, £126,000 to the Department for Education and Skills, £44,000 to the Department for Constitutional Affairs and £34,000 to the Department for Transport. This is partially offset by a transfer into ONS of £500,000 from other government departments. These transfers comprise £300,000 from HM Treasury to fund work on the Atkinson review of government output and productivity and £200,000 from the Department for Constitutional Affairs in respect of Registration Services' gender recognition project.

The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from a transfer of £5,000 to the Department of Health in relation to work to develop the Neighbourhood Statistics programme.