§ The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Warner)My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Health has made the following Written Ministerial Statement today.
Subject to the necessary supplementary estimate, the Department of Health's element of the departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £262,454,000 from £65,583,213,000 to £65,845,667,000 and the administration cost limit will decrease by £4,042,000 from £297,448,000 to £293,406,000. The overall DEL including the Food Standards Agency will increase by the same amount, £262,454,000, from £65,722,240,000 to £65,984,694,000. The impact on resource and capital are set out in the following table.
New DEL Change Voted Non-Voted Total £ million £ million £ million £ million Department of Health Resource DEL 95.348 63,334.252 -310.127 63,024.125 Capital DEL 167.106 653.611 2,167.931 2,821.542 Total Department of Health DEL 262.454 63,987.863 1,857.804 65,845.667 Depreciation1 0.078 -352.57 -44.369 -396.939 Total Department of Health spending (after adjustment) 262.532 63,635.293 1,813.435 65,448.728 Food Standards Agency Resources 0 136.368 0 136.368 Capital 0 2.659 0 2.659 Total Food Standards Agency DEL 0 139.027 0 139.027 Depreciation1 0 -2.004 0 -2.004 Total Food Standards Agency spending (after adjustment) 0 137.023 0 137.023 1Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL since the capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
The change in the DEL arises from the take-up of end-year flexibility £260,978,000 (£1,572,000 administration costs) for capital, revenue and administration budgets as set out in Table 6 of the Public Expenditure 2002–03 Provisional Outturn White Paper Cm 5884 published in July 2003. A net transfer from the Home Office of £ 1,980,000 (£50,000 administration costs) mainly for training costs at special hospitals, drugs misuse pilot projects and voluntary sector care projects helping to increase volunteers in intermediate care; from the Department of Trade and Industry £1,070,000 (£70,000 administration costs) for contributions towards the human genetics commission and to support development of genetics knowledge parks to increase understanding into a range of genetic-based issues 22WS including research; from the Department for Work and Pensions £10,343,000 for the NHS low-income scheme and a contribution to the care direct budget; to the Scotland Executive £88,000 for their share of the reimbursement from manufacturers 3M associated with the ending of a hip replacement programme; a net transfer to the Department for Education and Skills £12,544,000 (£-1,733,000 administration costs) mainly for capital projects, machinery of government changes and NHS diploma students offset by contributions towards teenage pregnancy, children's trusts and communications budgets; a net transfer from the DHSS Northern Ireland £735,000 for out-of-area treatments offset by a contribution to CJD care fund; to the National Assembly for Wales £20,000 (administration costs) for prison healthcare.
The administration cost limit has reduced by £4,042,000 from £297,448,000 to £293,406,000. In addition to the changes detailed above there is a decrease of £3,981,000 for transfers to programme budgets mainly for capitalisation of software developments.