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Departmental Expenditure (Forestry Commission)

Volume 467: debated on Thursday 15 November 2007

Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Forestry Commission's DEL will be increased by £10,104,000 from £82,288,000 to £92,392,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

£000

Change

New DEL

Voted

Non-voted

Voted

Non-voted

Total

Resource DEL

9,804

90,369

2,653

93,022

Of which:

Administration budget1

Near-cash in

7,304

66,273

2,653

68,866

RDEL Capital2

1,800

2,640

-700

1,940

Less Depreciation3

-1,500

-2,570

-2,570

Total

10,104

90,439

1,953

92,392

1 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.

2 Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets.

3 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:

a. A transfer of £7,994,000 from Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, to allow the Forestry Commission to administer the Farm Woodland Premium scheme.

b. The take up of £3,610,000 end of year flexibility to meet expenditure on payment of private woodland grants, costs associated with efficiency initiatives and increased forecasts on both cost of capital and depreciation charges.

c. A transfer from resource to capital DEL of £1,800,000.

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

a. A transfer from resource DEL of £1,800,000 to support capital investment of e-business systems.