As a result of the recent review, the following changes (in value and percentage) from the levels planned at the beginning of the year have been made to the resource budgets for 2006-07 of the bodies listed:
(i) Agricultural Wages Board for England and Wales—£Nil
(ii) Agricultural Wages Committee (England)—£Nil
(iii) British Potato Council—£Nil
(iv) British Waterways—£3.934 million (7 per cent.) reduction
(v) British Wool Marketing Board—Nil
(vi) Broads Authority—£Nil
(vii) Central Science Laboratory—£Nil
(viii) Centre for Environment Fisheries and Aquaculture Science—£900,000 (3 per cent.) reduction
(ix) Consumer Council for Water—£Nil
(x) Countryside Agency—include within Natural England (xii) as follows
(xi) Covent Garden Market Authority—£Nil
(xii) Natural England—£12.9 million (7 per cent.) reduction
(xiii) Environment Agency—£23.7 million (5 per cent.) reduction
(xiv) Food From Britain—£403,000 (8 per cent.) reduction
(xv) Gangmasters Licensing Authority—£Nil
(xvi) Government Decontamination Service—£Nil
(xvii) Home-Grown Cereals Authority—£Nil
(xviii) Horticultural Development Council—£Nil
(xix) Marine Fisheries Agency—£1.722 million (6 per cent.) reduction
(xx) Meat and Livestock Commission—£15,000 (4 per cent.) reduction
(xxi) Milk Development Council—£Nil
(xxii) National Forest Company—£300,000 (8 per cent.) reduction
(xxiii) Pesticides Safety Directorate—£839,000 (7 per cent.) reduction
(xxiv) Regional Flood Defence Committees—£Nil
(xxv) Review of Funding Mechanisms for Flood and Coastal Defence—£Nil
(xxvi) Royal Botanic Gardens Kew—£600,000 (3 per cent.) reduction
(xxvii) Rural Payments Agency—£23.0 million (11 per cent.) increase
(xxviii) Sea Fish Industry Authority—£Nil
(xxix) State Veterinary Service—£3.0 million (3 per cent.) reduction
(xxx) Sustainable Development Commission—£Nil
(xxxi) UK Biodiversity Group—£Nil
(xxxii) Veterinary Laboratories Agency—£2.4 million (3 per cent.) reduction
(xxxiii) Veterinary Medicines Directorate—£283,000 (7 per cent.) reduction