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Departmental Public Expenditure

Volume 491: debated on Tuesday 21 April 2009

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change how much capital spending is planned to be brought forward by his Department to (a) 2008-09 and (b) 2009-10. (266341)

The Department of Energy and Climate Change brought forward £50 million of capital expenditure on the Warm Front programme from 2010-11 into 2009-10 and received additional funding of £50 million for 2008-09 and £50 million for 2009-10, also on the Warm Front programme, as announced in the 2008 pre-Budget report.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change pursuant to the answer of 10 March 2009, Official Report, column 404W, on the economic situation, what expenditure under each budget heading his Department incurred in the meeting of energy and oil Ministers in London on 18 and 19 December 2008. (267996)

The meeting in London on 18 and 19 December 2008 of International Energy and Oil Ministers cost the Department £516,200.28. This figure is broken down by the following categories of expenditure:

£

Event organisation and logistical arrangements

1255,870.75

Hire of conference venue and hotel accommodation for delegates

130,289.53

Production of analytical reports and research

130,040.00

1 This figure includes event management, security, A/V equipment, interpretation, design and set up of the conference venue, catering, transportation and equipment used during the event.

To ask the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change what his latest estimate is of his Department’s capital expenditure in (a) 2008-09, (b) 2009-10, (c) 2010-11 and (d) 2011-12; and if he will make a statement. (268118)

DECC’s capital budgets for 2008-09, 2009-10 and 2010-11 are £1,709 million, £1,771 million and £1,767 million respectively. 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.