HL Deb 22 February 2005 vol 669 cc54-5WS
Baroness Symons of Vernham Dean

Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £46,199,000 from £1,883,444,000 to £1,929,643,000 and the administration costs limit will be decreased by £21,151,000 from £793,006,000 to £771,885,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

£'000s
Change Voted New DEL Non-voted Total
Resource 35,374 1,607,192 212,118 1,819,310
Capital 10,825 101,533 8,800 110,333
Depreciation* 0 -106,218 -26,800 -133,018
Total 46,199 1,602,507 194,118 1,796,625

* 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 the resource element of the DEL arises from:

RfR1

  1. I. Reserve claims of £402,000 for the Emergency Disaster Reserve; £9,957,000 for consular premium collected in the UK and £7,755,000 for international organisations subscriptions;
  2. II. PES transfers from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) and Defra of £160,000 each for the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea;
  3. III. A PES transfer from the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) of £32,000 in respect of the Year of Science in China;
  4. IV. A PES transfer from the Cabinet Office for £65,000 for the funding of the Parliamentary Counsel Office;
  5. V. A PES transfer to the security and intelligence agencies (SIA) of £1,400,000 for language training. Income and expenditure has also been increased by £1,400,000 to reflect this;
  6. VI. A PES transfer to the security and intelligence agencies (SIA) of 562,000 for planned programme activity;
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  7. VII. A PES transfer of to the Home Office of £1,000,000 in respect of European residence permits;
  8. VIII. A reduction of £12,553,000 in respect of overseas price movements;
  9. IX. Increases in income and expenditure of £50,700,000 relating to increased visa and consular activity;
  10. X. Increases in income and expenditure of £445,000 relating to increased postage recoveries and other sundry receipts;
  11. XI. Increases in income and expenditure of £160,000 relating to increased receipts for international organisation subscriptions;
  12. XII. An increase in income and expenditure of £38,086,000 relating to other government departments' contributions to the UK presence in Iraq. Of this £11,236,000 is vired to capital.

RfR2

  1. XIII. Take up of £23,347,000 end-year flexibility;
  2. XIV. Draw down of £110,000,000 from the peacekeeping main estimate provision of which £90,000,000 is transferred to the Ministry of Defence;
  3. XV. A PES transfer of £12,551,000 from DfID for programme activity;
  4. XVI. A PES transfer of £49,000 from the Cabinet Office relating to a forecast underspend on the countries at risk of instability pilot because of a forecast underspend;
  5. XVII. Draw down of £6,000,000 from the departmental unallocated provision;
  6. XVIII. PES transfers of £2,237,000 to the security and intelligence agencies, £2,200,000 to the Ministry of Defence and £6,500,000 to DfID for planned programme activity.

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

  1. I. A reduction of £411,000 due to overseas price movements;
  2. II. £11,236,000 vired from administration for other government departments' contribution to UK presence in Iraq.