Departments: Finance

To ask the Secretary of State for Health (1) in which years his Department's (a) near-cash, (b) non-cash and (c) capital budget was reduced as a result of it being reprofiled over the years covered by the 2004 Spending Review; and by whom in each case; (153363)

(2) pursuant to the answer of 10 July 2007, Official Report, column 1446W, on Departments: public expenditure, and the information provided on page 271 of HM Treasury's 2006 Budget report, how his Department's budget was reprofiled over the 2004 Spending Review period; and how much of its (a) near-cash budget, (b) non-cash budget and (c) capital budget was transferred from which year to which year.

Updated spending estimates are set out in the “Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses”. The "Differences from Previous Plans'' chapter compares the latest plans for Department Expenditure Limits and Annually Managed Expenditure with the plans set out in the previous year.

Expenditure plans are routinely updated as part of the parliamentary estimates process, and updates are also published in the Budget and pre-Budget report.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will place in the Library a copy of the letter received by his Department from HM Treasury at the time of the 2006 Budget giving his Department formal notification that its budget would be reprofiled over the years covered by the 2004 Spending Review. (153370)

The Department has regular correspondence with HM Treasury on a wide range of issues. It is not Government practice to place such correspondence in the Library.

Volume 463: debated on Monday 3 September 2007