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Departmental Public Expenditure

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department how much capital expenditure has been brought forward in response to the economic downturn by her Department, its agencies and non-departmental public bodies to (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10 and (c) 2010-11; from which years such expenditure has been brought forward; and if she will make a statement. (251399)

As announced in the pre-Budget report on 24 November, £20 million of capital expenditure has been brought forward from 2010-11 to 2009-10 to improve the estates of the Serious Organised Crime Agency and the National Police Improvement Agency, developing and installing high technology systems and enhancing intelligence gathering against serious organised crime.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what her latest estimate is of her Department's capital expenditure in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10, (c) 2010-11 and (d) 2011-12; and if she will make a statement. (268121)

As published in the Pre-Budget report on 24 November 2008, the Home Office capital budget in 2008-9 is £0.9 billion, in 2009-10 £0.8 billion, and in 2010-11 £0.8 billion. The Government have not set Departments' Capital DEL budgets for years beyond 2010-11. Capital DEL budgets for 2011-12 and beyond are a matter for the next spending review. The Government do, however, publish projections for PSNI (Public Sector Net Investment) over the forecast period at Budgets and Pre-Budget reports.

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to tables 52 and 53 in her Department’s Annual Report 2008, under what budgetary headings expenditure under the (a) resource and (b) capital budget for the (i) National Policing Improvement Agency, (ii) Serious Organised Crime Agency, (iii) Office for Security and Counter-Terrorism, (iv) Office of the Immigration Services Commissioner, (v) UK Border Agency, (vi) Identity and Passport Service, (vii) Central Services and (viii) Research and Statistics Directorate has been incurred in 2008-09. (269224)

The following tables set out the programmes which have incurred expenditure for the requested areas of work.

Budgetary headings are assumed to be the programme objects, sub-programmes and account descriptions as defined by HM Treasury, which inform HM Treasury financial management and reporting processes.

HM Treasury account description (resource)

Business

Sub-Programmes

Wages and Salaries

Purchases and sales of goods/services

Grants to local authorities

Grants to private sector

EU grant income

Depreciation, cost of capital and provisions

NPIA

NPIA

Yes

Yes

Yes

SOCA

SOCA

Yes

Yes

Yes

OSCT

Counter-Terrorism

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

OSCT

Other OSCT

Yes

OISC

OISC

Yes

Yes

UKBA

Core UKBA

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

UKBA

European refugee fund

Yes

Yes

IPS

IPS

Yes

Yes

Yes

Central services

Central services

Yes

Yes

Yes

Research and Statistics

Research and Statistics

Yes

Yes

Yes

HM Treasury account description (capital)

Business

Sub-programmes

Capital expenditure net of sales

Capital support to local authorities

Capital grants to private Sector and overseas

NPIA

NPIA

Yes

SOCA

SOCA

Yes

OSCT

Counter-Terrorism

Yes

Yes

Yes

OSCT

Other OSCT

UKBA

Core UKBA

Yes

IPS

IPS

Yes

Central services

Central services

Yes

Research and Statistics

Research and Statistics

Yes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to tables 5.2 and 5.3 in her Department’s Annual Report 2008, under what budget headings (a) resource and (b) capital expenditure allocated for (i) drugs, (ii) the Independent Safeguarding Authority for Crime and (iii) crime reduction has been incurred in 2008-09. (269243)

The tables set out the programmes which have incurred expenditure for the requested areas of work.

Budgetary headings are assumed to be the programme objects, sub-programmes and account descriptions as defined by HM Treasury, which inform HM Treasury financial management and reporting processes.

HM Treasury account description (resource)

Business

Sub-programmes

Wages and salaries

Purchases and sales of goods/services

Grants to local authorities

Grants to private sector

Area Based Grant

Crime Reduction and Drugs

Crime Reduction

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Crime Reduction and Drugs

Crime Reduction—ABG

Yes

Crime Reduction and Drugs

Drugs

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Crime Reduction and Drugs

Neighbourhood Crime and Justice Unit

Yes

Yes

ISA

ISA

Yes

Yes

HM Treasury account description (capital)

Business

Sub-programmes

Capital expenditure net of sales

Capital support to local authorities

Capital grants to private sector and overseas

Crime Reduction and Drugs

Crime Reduction

Yes

Yes

Yes

Crime Reduction and Drugs

Drugs

Yes

To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department with reference to tables 5.2 and 5.3 in her Department’s Annual Report 2008, under what budgetary headings expenditure under the (a) resource and (b) capital budget for the Independent Police Complaints Commission has been incurred in 2008-09. (269245)

The Independent Police Complaints Commission has incurred expenditure under the following budget headings:

Wages and salaries

Purchases and sales of goods and services

Depreciation, cost of capital and provisions

Capital additions, net of sales

Budgetary headings are assumed to be the programme objects, sub-programmes and account descriptions as defined by HM Treasury, which inform HM Treasury financial management and reporting processes.