HC Deb 28 February 2003 vol 400 cc42-3WS
The Economic Secretary to the Treasury (John Healey)

Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the H M Customs and Excise DEL will be increased by £4,259,000 from £1,158,728,000 to £1,162,987,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £23,535,000 from £1,017,967,000 to £1,041,502,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the table:

Agency in support of CAP Export Licensing; and an increase of £135,000 in the level of appropriation in aid receipts.

The change in the capital element of DEL arises from: the take up of end year flexibility entitlement of £3,234,000 as set out in Public Expenditure White Paper (Cm 5574); a reduction in capital expenditure of £510,000 concerning round three of the Capital Modernisation Fund; a transfer of £22,000,000 Departmental Unallocated Provision into resource DEL to reflect investment in the e-Government programme; and an increase in capital expenditure by £135,000 in relation to capital costs in running Money Service Businesses.

As a result of the specified resource DEL changes mentioned in the above paragraph, not including the appropriations in aid adjustment, the administration costs limit has increased by £23,535,000.

Resources Capital
Change New DEL Of which: voted Non voted Change New DEL Of which: voted Non voted
-764,000 127,472,000 123,112,000 4,360,000 NIL 22,063,000 22,063,000 0

The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from an increase in Resource DEL due to the draw down of £308,000 from the Invest to Save Budget in respect of the "Citizen Information Project: feasibility study" and due to the draw down of £50,000 from the Evidence-Based Policy Fund towards the costs of the English Longitudinal Study on Ageing. This increase is outweighed by transfers of £1,122,000 in total to other government departments. £537,000 of the transfer is in relation to data development work for the Neighbourhood Statistics programme. The transfers comprise £50,000 to the Department for Transport, £247,000 to the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and £240,000 to the Home Office. Furthermore, ONS is repaying to the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit £585,000

Resources Capital
Change New DEL Of which: Voted Non voted Change New DEL Of which: Voted Non voted
455,277 3,440,889 2,269,255 1,171,634 -377,972 13,374 13,374

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

RfR 1: Eliminating Poverty in Poorer Countries

a transfer of £1,200,000 resource from DEFRA representing a contribution to the environmental know-how fund to Bilateral Development Assistance resource;to give effect to the take up of DEL end year flexibility of £52,458,000 resource (non-discretionary—EC Attribution rollover) on programme expenditure to Bilateral Development Assistance resource;a transfer of £988,000 from Multilateral Capital to Bilateral Development Assistance resource;a transfer of £19,000,000 from non-voted capital to Bilateral Development Assistance resource;a transfer of £18,000,000 from non-voted capital to Multilateral Development Assistance resource;a transfer of £339,984,000 from non-voted capital to non-voted Resource for the unwinding of Provisions;to give effect to the transfer of £24,472,000 resource from the Central Reserve as a contribution to HIPC 100% expenditure to Bilateral Development Assistance;a reduction of £3,600,000 resource to the Bilateral Development Assistance net cash figure to account for the value of VAT receipts taken in 2002/03;