Departmental Expenditure Limits (Hansard, 28 February 2002)

§ Ms Hewitt

A technical revision has been made to the Department of Trade and Industry DEL, which has no impact on either the total DEL or the Administration Costs limit.

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

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Resources (£000)	Capital (£000)
Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non-voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non-voted
7,043	4,029,188	895,145	3,134,043	-7,043	806,285	-148,330	954,615

The change in the resource and capital DEL arises from a revision of the classification as between resource and capital of an agreed increase in DEL for the Science research councils of £43,270,000 which was included in the Winter Supplementary.

Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate the Office of Fair Trading DEL will be increased by £3,000,000 from £40,536,000 to £43,536,000 and the Administration Costs limit will be increased by £3,000,000 from £40,536,000 to £43,536,000.

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

Resources (£000)	Capital (£000)
Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non-voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non-voted
3,000	41,308	39,008	2,300	0	2,228	2,228	0

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from the following:

(i) to provide additional resources of £700,000 in Administration to enable the Office of Fair Trading to meet the costs of all liability to third parties for litigation and redress;
(ii) to provide additional resources of £1,112,000 in Administration in relation to the recharge of rental income for the Office of Fair Trading Minor Occupiers. This is offset by a corresponding increase in Appropriations in Aid;
(iii) utilise the provision of £2,300,000 in meeting the costs of liability to third parties for litigation and redress.

The increase will be charged to the DEL Reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.