HC Deb 24 February 2004 vol 418 cc20-1WS
The Secretary of State for Health (Dr. John Reid)

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.

Change £ million Voted £ million New DEL Non-voted £ million Total £ 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
Depreciation* 0.078 -352.570 -44.369 -396.939
Change £ million Voted £ million New DEL Non-voted £ million Total £ million
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 Standard Agency DEL 0 139.027 0 139.027
Depreciation* 0 -2.004 0 -2.004
Total Food Standards Agency spending (after adjustment) 0 137.023 0 137.023
*Depreciation, 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 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.

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