HC Deb 27 November 2003 vol 415 cc3-6WS
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 2003–04 will change as follows:

(1) the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Main Programmes DEL will be increased by £259,342,000 from £6,655,307,000 to £6,914,649,000 and the administration costs limit will be increased by £29,268,000 from £367,110,000 to £396,378,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resource and capital are tabled below.

(£000)
New DEL
Change Voted Non-voted Total
Resource 212,829 3,036,150 1,978,998 5,015,148
Capital 46,513 640,465 1,259,036 1,899,501
Depreciation* 1,594 -16,468 -2,000 -18,468
Total 260,936 3,660,147 3,236,034 6,896,181

* Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting. The change in depreciation is due to capital spending on The Rent Service and Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency programmes and transfer from the provision for Regional Development Agencies to the Department of Trade and Industry.

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

  1. (i) take up of End Year Flexibility of £266,254,000 comprising:
    1. (a) £81,762,000 for the Sustainable Communities Plan;
    2. (b) £64,727,000 for Housing programmes expenditure;
    3. (c) £35,104, 000 for Fire Services (mass decontamination, search and rescue, firelink radio systems and the White Paper;
    4. (d) £5,550,000 for the Fire Service College building refurbishment;
    5. (e) £6,200,000 for Regional Policy programme expenditure;
    6. (f) £500,000 for the Audit Commission:
    7. (g) £300,000 for research expenditure;
    8. (h) £7,269,000 (administration costs) for administration expenditure by The Rent Service and Planning Inspectorate Executive Agencies;
    9. (i) £2,761,000 for programme expenditure by the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency;
    10. (j) £23,000 from the Evidence Based Policy Fund for Research;
    11. (k) £41,038,000 non-voted for the Housing Corporation;
    12. (l) £21,020,000 non-voted for Regional Development Agencies.
  2. (ii) a net transfer of £52,925,000 to other government departments, comprising:
    1. (a) £1,600,000 from Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs, £1,404,000 from Department for Transport, £8,000 from Department for Health, £125,000 from Department for Culture, Media & Sports, £58,000 from Her Majesty's Treasury, £30,000 from Home Office, £686,000 from The Scottish Executive, £177,000 from Department for Trade & Industry, £275,000 from Ministry of Defence, £244,000 from Her Majesty's Custom & Excise, £148,000 from Forestry Commission and £637,000 from The Welsh Assembly for Payment to Ordnance Survey in relation to the Pan Government Agreement for supply of mapping data;
    2. (b) £181,000 (administration costs) from Cabinet Office following the transfer of the Civil Contingencies Secretariat;
    3. (c) £75,000 (administration costs) to Department for Transport for the Honours Secretariat and the Equality and Diversity Unit;
    4. (d) £162,000 (administration costs) to Department for Health, £20,000 to Department for Culture, Media and Sports, £60,000 to Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, £258,000 to Department of Education and Skills, £75,000 to Department for Transport, £70,000 to Department for Work and Pensions, and £60,000 to Home Office in respect of Local Government Public Service Agreements;
    5. (e) £502,000 (administration costs) to Department for Constitutional Affairs following Machinery of Government changes;
    6. (f) £700,000 from the Department for Transport to the Research Team to reverse a previous Machinery of Government change;
    7. (g) £130,000 from Home Office for Special Grants programme;
    8. (h) £100,000 from the New Ventures Fund to the Department of Education and Skills for a joint Residents' Consultancy Project;
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    9. (i) transfers to Home Office of £2,000,000 for a joint Capacity Building and Crime Initiative, £250,000 for Community Support Teams, £1,500,000 for the Pathfinder projects and £30,000 for the Good Practice Events from the New Ventures Fund;
    10. (j) £861,000 (administration costs) from Government Offices administration to the Department of Trade and Industry to reflect the reduction in review work;
    11. (k) £2,315,000 (administration costs) from Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs to Government Offices administration for additional core agenda work;
    12. (l) £17,104,000 (administration costs) from the Home Office to Government Offices administration in respect of Crime reduction, Active Communities Unit, Street Crime initiative, Community Cohesion, Drugs Prevention Advice, Communities Policy, Business Crime Advisors and core funding from SR2002 settlement;
    13. (m) £762,000 (administration costs) from the Department for Culture, Media and Sports to Government Offices administration for Core agenda and funding from SR2002 settlement;
    14. (n) £1,365,000 (administration costs) from Department for Transport to Government Offices administration for work on DfT agenda and funding from SR2002 settlement;
    15. (o) £2,415.000 (administration costs) from Department for Education and Skills to Government Offices administration for core agenda, adult basic skills, additional Connexions funding and SR2002 settlement;
    16. (p) £97,000 to the Welsh Assembly for Community Safety schemes;
    17. (q) £77,169,000 from provision for Regional Development Agencies to Department for Trade and Industry.
  3. (iii) An increase in receipts of £10,667,000 to offset similar increase in provision for Payment to Ordnance Survey and £850,000 to offset a similar increase in provision for Research.
  4. (iv) A transfer of £500,000 to Request for Resources 2, to fund Audit Commission Performance Assessment.
  5. (v) A net transfer of £21,844,000 from voted to non-voted provisions comprising:
    1. (a) a transfer of £107,462,000 to non-voted DEL for the Housing Corporation;
    2. (b) a transfer of £81,141,000 from non-voted to increase voted resource investment for the Sustainable Communities Plan;
    3. (c) a transfer of £4,477,000 from non-voted Departmental Unallocated provision to voted provision (£2,000,000 for central administration) and (£2,477,000 for the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency administration costs).
  6. (vi) A reclassification of £91,462,000 New Deal for Communities resource investment provision as capital by a transfer to the Housing Corporation, non-voted provision fully offset by a transfer of capital from the Sustainable Communities Plan.
  7. (vii) As a result of the changes to Request for Resources 1, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's administration provision has been increased by £29,268,000 from £379,652,000 to £408,920,000.

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

  1. (a) take up of end year flexibility of £44,093,000 comprising
    1. (i) £21,360,000 for the Sustainable Communities Plan;
    2. (ii) £2,994,000 for Housing programmes expenditure;
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    3. (iii) £9,647,000 Capital Modernisation Fund for fire services (New Dimension);
    4. (iv) £1,500,000 for The Rent Service;
    5. (v) £40,000 Capital Modernisation Fund (Evidence Based Policy Fund) for The Rent Service;
    6. (vi) £8,552,000 for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's own capital expenditure;
  2. (b) a transfer of £2,420,000 from the Department for Trade and Industry for core funding from SR2002 settlement.

Within the capital element of the DEL there is a net transfer of £66,267,000 from non-voted to voted provisions, comprising: £14,500,000 from provision to non-voted English Partnerships; £8,078,000 supplementary credit approvals for other housing programmes; £5,556,000 local authority Supplementary credit approvals for Fire New Dimension Search and Rescue and £67,133,000 to partly fund the New Deal for Communities reclassification).

(2) The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's Local Government DEL will be increased by £27,947,000 from £41,331,545,000 to £41,359,492,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are tabled below.

£000
New DEL
Change Voted Non-voted Total
Resource 19,498 40,928,700 98,082 41,026,782
Capital 8,449 324,710 8,000 332,710
Depreciation* 0 0 0 0
Total 27,947 41,253,410 106,082 41,359,492

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

  1. (i) take up of End Year Flexibility of £13,298,000 comprising:
    1. (a) £3,375,000 for Valuation Services;
    2. (a) £335,000 for Local Government on Line;
    3. (a) £240,000 for Electoral Law;
    4. (a) £8,475,000 for Other Grants and Payments;
    5. (a) £873,000 draw down from Invest to Save Budget;
  2. (ii) a transfer of £500,000 from Request for Resources 1 for Audit Commission Performance Assessment;
  3. (iii) a transfer of £5,700,000 from capital for Local Government on Line.

The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from draw down of £12,000,000 from the capital modernisation fund (end year flexibility), £2,149,000 from the Invest to Save Budget and a transfer of £5,700,000 to resource to increase provision for Local Government on Line.