§ Lord BachMy right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Defence (Mr Geoffrey Hoon) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
The 2005 report of the Armed Forces' Pay Review Body has been published today. Copies of the report are available in the Vote Office and the Library of the House. I wish to express my thanks to the chairman and members of the review body for their clear and wide-ranging report.
The AFPRB has recommended an increase in basic military salary of 3 per cent for all other ranks and officers. the AFPRB has also recommended increases in the rates of specialist pay (e.g. flying pay, submarine pay, diving pay and hydrographic pay), and in accommodation charges. The AFPRB also recommended a five per cent increase to rates of longer separated service allowance and longer service at sea bonus which are designed to compensate for separation.
Resources Capital Change New DEL Of which: Voted Change Non-voted New DEL Of which: Voted Non-voted DfES £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 £'000 RfR 1 208,530 23,396,589 7,391,692 16,004,897 11,615 3,704,409 2,465,187 1,239,222 RfR 2 171,074 928,652 928,652 0 23,185 137,390 137,390 0 RfR 3 44,097 239,587 239,587 0 0 33 33 0 Ofsted 0 213,301 213,301 0 0 1,309 1,309 0 Sub Total 423,701 24,778,129 8,773,232 16,004,897 34,800 3,843,141 2,603,919 1,239,222 Depreciation* 0 -48,089 -12,343 -35,746 0 0 0 0 Total 423,701 24,730,040 8,760,889 15,969,151 34,800 3,843,141 2,603,919 1,239,222 * Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, in the table above. since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
Within the administration cost limits changes, the impact is set out in the following table:
DfES Original £'000 Change £'000 Revised £'000 DfES (RfR 1) 242,362 16,424 258,786 OFSTED 30,000 30,000 Total 272,362 16,424 288,786 Resource DEL
The change in the resource element of the DEL of £423,701,000 arises from a £ 101,530,000 increase in the voted element of the resource DEL and an increase of £322,171,000 in the non-voted element of the resource DEL mainly to the department's non-departmental public bodies.
Voted Resource DEL
The £101,530,000 increase in the voted element of the resource DEL arises from a £171,074,000 increase in 60WS The additional cost to the defence budget will be £216 million. This will be met within existing departmental expenditure limits.
The AFPRB's recommendations are to be accepted in full, with implementation effective from 1 April 2005.