The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs(Mr. Bill Rammell): Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be increased by £5,611,000 from £1,463,838,000 to £1,469,449,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £60,097,000 from £678,042,000 to £738,139,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the table:
vii. A PES transfer from the Department of Trade and Industry of £100,000 in respect of Invest UK DTI funded overseas slots at the time of the Winter Supplementary Estimate, details of which were not published at the time.
viii. A PES transfer to the Department for International Development (DflD) and Ministry of Defence of £2,000,000 and £4,884,000 respectively in respect of the remainder required to fund planned Conflict Prevention (CP) programme activity to the end of the FY.
ix. A PES transfer from the CP Global Programme pool to DflD and the Ministry of Defence of £250,000 and £572,000 respectively in respect of baseline repatriation to Departments.
x. A PES transfer from DflD of £1,450,000 to fund payment to a Military Officer in Angola, a project management transfer and the FCO's one-third share of the existing CP Africa Pool Reserve.
xi. Take up of EYF if £11,531,000 from a combination of underspends on the 2001/02 CP DUP and DflD and FCO CP Programme underspends.
65WSxii. A PES transfer to DflD of £5,000,000 for planned CP programme activities at the time of the Winter Supplementary Estimate, details of which were not published at the time.
xiii. A PES transfer to the Security and Intelligence Agencies of £225,000 for CP activities at the time of the Winter Supplementary Estimates, details of which were not published at the time.
xiv. An increase of £499,000 for additional security at Posts in the Middle East.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from
i. A PES transfer from the Home Office of £515,000 and £264,000 to defray the extra costs to the FCO of setting up Visa regimes for Zimbabwe and Jamaica.
ii. Reclassification of £62,410,000 from Capital to Resource to improve budgetary flexibility.
iii. A decrease of £585,000 in respect of an adjustment for Overseas Price Movements.
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 The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
An increase of £500,000,000 as a result of the Comprehensive Spending Review 2002 outcome whereby the MOD was provided with a Sustainability Fund to enhance the Department's capability to sustain military operations.
A net reduction of £102,960,000 due to a transfer of £340,000,000 to capital to reflect compliance with the accounting policy change in FRS15, offset by a transfer from capital of £237,040,000 to reflect in-year Departmental re-allocations.
An addition of £21,233,000 towards the MOD's liability to British Nuclear Fuels Ltd.
An increase of £314,000 towards the purchase of two Landing Ship Dock (Auxiliary) vessels, offset by the repayment of an advance in 2001–02 of £1,000,000 towards the purchase of two RoRo ferries. This gives a net decrease of £686,000.
A transfer out of Resource DEL of £120,000 to the Single Intelligence Account relating to electricity charges on a shared site.
A transfer in of Resource DEL of £183,000 from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the OAB Citadel costs.
An increase of £617,175,000 in the Request for Resource for Conflict Prevention to cover the net additional costs of military operations in Kosovo, Bosnia, the Gulf, Afghanistan and contingency planning for possible operations.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from:
A net increase of £102,960,000 due to a transfer of £340,000,000 to capital from resource to reflect compliance with the accounting policy change in
66WSiv. A transfer from BBC World Service Capital to BBC World Service Resource of £30,000,000 to facilitate effective management of BBC World Service budgets.
v. An increase of £5,121,000 for additional security at Posts in the Middle East.
vi. An increase of £10,000,000 to cover a shortfall in non-operating appropriation in aid in respect of asset recycling.