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Departmental Expenditure (Culture, Media and sport)

Volume 467: debated on Thursday 15 November 2007

Subject to Parliamentary approval of any Supplementary Estimate, the Department for Culture Media and Sport's Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be increased by £143,977,000 from £1,864,054,000 to £2,008,031,000 and the administration cost limit will increase by £5,316,000 from £50,258,000 to £55,574,000. Within the DEL change the impact on resource and capital are set out in the following table:

Departmental Expenditure Limits and Administration Budgets.

Change

New DEL

£'000

Voted

Non-voted

Voted

Non-voted

Total

Resource DEL

-78,837

122,298

91,691

1,515,717

1,607,408

of which:

Administration budget*

5,316

55,270

55,574

Near-cash in RDEL

-78,837

122,298

83,173

1,335,626

1,418,799

Capital**

5,685

94,831

28,997

473,356

502,353

Less Depreciation***

-

-

-5,942

-95,788

-101,730

Total

-73,152

217,129

114,746

1,893,285

2,008,031

* 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 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:

Take up of £34,996,000 End Year flexibility: (£5,996,000) Arts Council of England; (£2,000,000) English Heritage and (£27,000,000) resource DEL cover for the London Organising Committee for the Olympic Games.

Transfers from other Government Departments of: £2,000,000 from Department for Children, Schools and Families for Strategic Commissioning; £1,000,000 from Department for International Development to UK Sport for Olympic projects; £149,000 from Ministry of Defence for the Pattern Room collection and £316,000 from Cabinet Office to cover baseline costs of the Parliamentary Council.

The administration cost limit has increased by £5,316,000 from £50,258,000 to £55,574,000. This is as a result of a transfer from Cabinet Office of £316,000 detailed above and the take up of £5,000,000 Administration End Year Flexibility.

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

Take up of End-Year Flexibility of £20,000,000: (£10,000,000) for the Natural History Museum, Darwin Centre and (£10,000,000) for the Museums for agreed funding plans.

A transfer of £80,451,000 from the Department for Communities and Local Government to the Olympic Development Authority for Olympic Costs.

Grants from the Invest to Save budget of £65,000 to Sport England to fund Street Cage Soccer.