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Defra Departmental Expenditure Limit Change

Volume 453: debated on Tuesday 21 November 2006

Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs DEL will be increased by £12,368,000 from £3,484,561,000 to £3,496,929,000 and the administration budget will be increased by £294,000 from £285,164,000 to £285,458,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

£’000s

Change

New DEL

Voted

Non- voted

Voted

Non- voted

Total

Resource

-17,381

-94,477

4,467,550

-1,661,765

2,805,785

of which:

Administration Budget

294

-

285,458

-

285,458

Near-cash in RDEL

-17,381

-94,477

4,332,354

-1,821,793

2,510,561

Capital

25,226

99,000

691,726

204,500

896,226

Depreciation*

-

-

-42,771

-162,311

-205,082

Total

7,845

4,523

5,116,505

-1,619,576

3,496,929

*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 (i) transfer of responsibility for the Wine Standards Board to the Food Standards Agency, £415,000; (ii) a switch of £99,000,000 from programme resources to capital; (iii) a transfer to the Scottish Executive of £384,000 of programme resources for the bio-energy infrastructure scheme; (iv) a transfer to the Department for Constitutional Affairs of £170,000 of programme resources for the Cleaner Neighbourhoods and Environment Act 2005; (v) transfers to the Department for Communities and Local Government of £7,051,000 of programme resources for Government Offices funding; (vi) a transfer to the Department of Trade and Industry of £4,750,000 of programme resources for Energy Demand Reduction trials; (vii) a transfer to the Forestry Commission of £1,114,000 of programme resources for the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme; (viii) a transfer from the Cabinet Office of £294,000 for Parliamentary Counsel costs; (ix) take up of £250,000 of programme resources from HM Treasury for the StartHere initiative; (x) take up of £482,000 of programme resources from HM Treasury for Invest to Save Budget projects.

The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from (i) take up of £25,071,000 of capital through End Year Flexibility; (ii) a switch of £99,000,000 from programme resources to capital; (iii) take up of £155,000 of capital from HM Treasury for Invest to Save Budget projects.