§ The Deputy Prime Minister (Mr. John Prescott)Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Departmental Expenditure Limits for 2002–03 will change as follows.
(a) The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Main Programmes DEL will be increased by £68,963,000 from £5,432,646,000 to £5,501,609,000 and the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister administration costs limit will be increased by £8,593,000 from £342,131,000 to £350,724,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
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(£'000) Change New DEL Change New DEL Total DEL † 33,850 1,955,445 † 35,113 3,546,164 Of which Voted † 148,589 1,635,990 † 55,852 1,492,405 Non voted - 114,739 319,455 - 20,739 2,053,759 The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
(i) The changes for Request for Resources 1 are as follows:
Take up of End Year Flexibility of £117,077,000 comprising £7,332,000 for Regional Development Agencies and £109,745,000 for Fire Service costs. A net transfer of £566,000 to non-voted provision consisting of £755,000 transferred from Housing research and publicity partially offset by £185,000 for the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency and £4,000 for miscellaneous Fire Service expenditure. Take up from the Capital Modernisation Fund of £55,000 for the business regeneration of deprived areas. A technical increase of £156,000 to reflect a transfer from Department of Trade and Industry. A net increase of £1,543,000 arising from the following inter-departmental transfers: £1,280,000 from the Home Office for homelessness strategies, £221,000 from the Department of Trade and Industry for the Business Brokers project, £90,000 from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency, £126,000 from the National Assembly for Wales for the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency offset by receipts of the same value, and £48,000 to the Lord Chancellor's Department for costs of amending Section 26 of the Housing Act. A transfer of £51,800,000 from the Scottish Executive (£18,500,000), the Northern Ireland Executive (£10,000,000) and funds from fire authorities in England and Wales (£23,300,000), matched by equivalent expenditure, for costs of providing emergency fire cover. A transfer of £3,600,000 from Request for Resources 4 for the administration costs for the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency. A transfer from non-voted capital provision of £25,245,000 to meet: Fire Service costs (£17,959,000), Jubilee fire service medals (£923,000) and Regional Chambers (£6,363,000).
(ii) The changes for Request for Resources 4 are as follows:
Take up of End Year Flexibility of £10,000,000 for administration costs. A net increase of £127,000 arising from machinery of government transfers transfer from the Cabinet office (£1,579,000) partially offset by a transfer to Department for Transport (£1,452,000). A decrease of £5,048,000 arising from other interdepartmental transfers to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (£6,604,000), the Department for Education and Skills (£240,000), the Department of Health (£180,000), the Department for Work and Pensions (£70,000), the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (£20,000), the Department for Transport (£75,000), partially 68WS offset by transfers from the Home Office (£1,309,000) and the Office of National Statistics (£832,000). A transfer of £3,600,000 to Request for Resources 1 for the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency administration costs.
(iii) Provision within the non-Voted resource element of the DTLR Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit will be decreased by £114,739,000 to reflect a transfer to the Local Government DEL (£10,062,000), a transfer to the Department for Works and Pensions in respect of Large Scale Voluntary Transfers (£105,243,000), partially offset by a net transfer from voted provision on Request for Resources 1 (£566,000)
(iv) As a result of the changes to Requests for Resources 1, and 4 the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister administration provision has been increased by £18,953,000 from £343,372,000 to £362,325,000. The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from:
(v) The changes for Request for Resources 1 are as follows:
Take up of End Year Flexibility of £36,540,000 for the Regional Development Agencies. A transfer of £2,110,000 from Request for Resources 4 for the Rent Service Executive Agency (£1,570,000) and the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency (£540,000). A transfer from non voted provision of £16,979,000 for the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency (£2,464,000), for miscellaneous Fire Service costs (£11,515,000) and homelessness (£3,000,000).
(vi) The changes for Request for Resources 4 are as follows:,
A transfer of £2,333,000 from the Department for Transport for administration capital. A transfer of £2,110,000 to Request for Resources 1 for the Rent Service Executive Agency (£1,570,000) and the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency (£540,000).
(vii) Provision within the non-Voted capital element of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Main Programmes Departmental Expenditure Limit will be decreased by £20,739,000 in respect of a transfer to voted provision on Request for Resources 1 (£42,224,000), a transfer to Local Government DEL (£4,515,000), partially offset by a technical increase of £26,000,000 for the Urban Regeneration Agency.
(b) The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Local Government DEL will be increased by £25,000,000 from £37,684,963,000 to £37,709,963,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
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'000 Change New DEL Change New DEL Total DEL † 25,000 37,428,935 — 281,028 Of which Voted † 25,000 37,336,082 273,028 Non Voted — 92,853 — 8,000 The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
(i) The changes for Request for Resources 3 are as follows:
Take up of End Year Flexibility of £10,423,000 of which £5,614,000 has been converted from capital provision within the allowed flexibility to provide support for intervention in Hackney. A transfer of £14,577,000 from the non-voted element of the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister Main Programmes DEL to provide support for intervention in Hackney.