§ The Minister for Rural Affairs and Urban Quality of Life (Alun Michael)Subject to Parliamentary approval of the Supplementary Estimate, the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs' DEL will be increased by £10,571,000 from £2,458,720,000 to £2,469,291,000, and the administration costs limit will be decreased by £26,217,000 from £486,690,000 to £460,473,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are set out in the table:
of the transfer of English Nature's unfunded pension liabilities into the Principal Civil Service Pension Scheme.
The change in the resource resource element of the DEL takes account of the take-up of our departmental unallocated provision (DUP) of £15,290,000 programme resources.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from: (i) the drawdown from Treasury of £50,000 capital for the Evidence Based Policy Fund; (ii) the switch of £15,000,000 from capital to administration and programme resources, as agreed with Treasury; (iii) the reclassification of £27,100,000 flood defence capital grants to the Environment Agency as grant-in-aid and matching non-Voted resource budget cover, to reflect the Agency's accounting treatment of these grants; (iv) to take-up £128,000 capital from the Invest to Save Budget, representing Defra's successful capital projects in the fourth round of awards; (v) the switch of £7,075,000 from capital to administration resource in respect of information technology (IT) costs, as agreed with Treasury.
The change in the capital element of the DEL takes account of the move onto the Estimate as capital grants of £2,397,000 supplementary credit approvals (SCA's).