Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Office for National Statistics’ total departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £941,000 from £174,237,000 to £175,178,000, and the administration budget will be increased by £1,491,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:
Change New DEL Voted Non-Voted Voted Non-Voted Total Resource DEL 941 - 162,504 7,027 169,531 Of which: Administration Budget* 1,491 - 162,504 7,027 169,531 Near-cash in RDEL -2,844 9,231 133,454 16,699 150,153 Capital** - - 27,580 - 27,580 Less Depreciation - - -21,933 - -21,933 Total 941 - 168,151 7,027 175,178 *The total of ‘Administration Budget’ and ‘Near-cash in Resource DEL’ figures may well be greater than total resource DEL, due to the definitions overlapping. **Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets. † 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 DEL arises from:
Take up of End-Year Flexibility (EYF) of £777,000 from the Invest to Save Budget as set out in the Public Outturn White Paper (CM 7156); and
Transfer of £164,000 from the Cabinet Office in respect of Civil Service statistics.
The change in the administration budget arises from the take up of administration DEL EYF of £777,000 from the Invest to Save Budget, the transfer of £164,000 from the Cabinet Office and a reclassification, from programme to admin, of £550,000 EU expenditure.