HL Deb 28 February 2003 vol 645 cc70-2WA
Baroness Blatch

asked Her Majesty's Government:

What contracts have been awarded to the Capita Group by the Department for Transport. [HL1808]

Lord Macdonald of Tradeston

The information requested is given in the following table.

£8,829,000 from £324,663,000 to £333,492,000. The Food Standards Agency DEL remains unchanged at £134,625,000 but the ACL will decrease by £19,368,000 from £55,119,000 to £35,751,000. The impact on resource and capital are set out in the following table.

£'000
Resource Capital
Change 393,200 55,542
New Department of Health DEL 54,385,885 2,404,487
Of which:
Voted 54,858,261 1,161,967
Non-Voted -472,376 1,242,520
Food Standards Agency DEL 133,988 637
Of which
Voted 133,988 637
Non-Voted 0 0
Total DH/FSA Group DEL 54,519,873 2,405,124

The change in the resource element of the department expenditure limit for the Department of Health arises from: a claim for early take-up of additional end-year flexibility from 2001–02 £120 million and the take-up of end-year flexibility £16.111 million (£6 million revenue allocations and £10.111 million administration cost limit) as set out in Table 6 of the Public Expenditure 2001–02 Provisional Outturn White Paper Cm 5574 published in July 2002; a change in the level of NHS trust depreciation £58.216 million; a transfer from the capital element of the DH DEL of £197.051 million; additions from the Evidence Based Policy Fund £0.229 million; net transfers from the Home Office of £3.433 million for training bursaries drug research and drug action teams, training of staff, offset by a grant for match funded social care projects; net transfer to the National Assembly for Wales £-5.960 million (£-0,022 administration cost limit) mainly for out-of-area treatments, high security psychiatric services, cross-border prescribing and prison healthcare offset by contributions to committee costs and post-graduate medical education; net transfer to the Scottish Executive £-2.050 million for out-of-area treatments, offset by a contribution to HIV surveillance funding, contributions to postgraduate medical education, the High Security Infectious Diseases Unit and the Beta Interferon risk sharing scheme; a transfer to Department of Transport £-0.010 for contribution to the international transport programme, environment and health programme; a transfer to Department for Work and Pensions £-1.699 million for costs associated with the road traffic accident compensation recovery unit; from Department for Education and Skills £7.067 million for medical student bursaries offset by a contribution for funding education advisers; to Cabinet Office £-0.175 million for development of a website; from DHSS Northern Ireland £0.747 million for out-of-area treatments and the Beta Interferon risk sharing scheme and from Office of the Deputy Prime Minister £0.240 million (administration cost limit) for public service agreements.

The change in the capital element of the department expenditure limit for the Department of Health arises from: the take-up of end-year flexibility £58.942 million as set out in Table 6 of the Public Expenditure 2001–02 Provisional Outturn White Paper Cm 5574 published in July 2002; additional resources for PFI balance sheet adjustments £153.571 million; a transfer to the resource element of the DH DEL of £-197.051 million; additions from the Capital Modernisation Fund £42.670 million; a transfer to the National Assembly for Wales £-0.540 million for accelerated discharge; to Department for Education and Skills £-1 million for a contribution for Derby Medical School; to Cabinet Office £-0.575 million for

£000s
Resources Capital
Change New DEL Of which: Voted Non-Voted Change New DEL Of which: Voted Non-Voted
1,034,825 20,177,493 19,787,783 389,710 517,376 6,359,521 6,283,093 76,428
development of a website and to Ministry of Defence £-0.475 million for capital contribution for Royal Hospital Haslar.

The Department of Health's administration cost limit has increased by £8.829 million from £324.663 million from £333.492 million as detailed above offset by a transfer of £-1.5million for capital provision. The Food Standards Agency (FSA) administration cost limit has decreased by £19.368 million from £55.119 million to £35.751 million as a result of re-classifying Meat Hygiene Service (MHS) costs from administration to programme and refining the FSA's and MHS's budget for 2002–03.