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Departmental Expenditure Limit (2009-10)

Volume 501: debated on Tuesday 24 November 2009

Subject to Parliamentary approval, the Department for Culture Media and Sport’s Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) will be increased by £85,705,000 from £1,974,663,000 to £2,060,368,000 and the administration budget will increase by £6,926,000 from £48,207,000 to £55,133,000. 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

9,696

-1,491

103,335

1,585,502

1,688,837

of which:

Administration budget*

6,926

55,133

55,133

Near-cash in RDEL

9,696

-1,491

93,956

1,357,881

1,451,837

Capital**

585

76,915

-784,204

1,266,104

481,900

Less Depreciation***

1,631

-6,405

-103,964

-110,369

Total

10,281

77,055

-687,274

2,747,642

2,060,368

*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 £7,179,000 End Year flexibility comprising: (£3,000,000) UK Film; (£879,000) Central DCMS Invest to Save Budget (ISB); and £3,300,000 Administration budget.

Transfers from other Government Departments of: £800,000 from Department for International Development for International Inspirations; and £226,000 from Cabinet Office to cover baseline costs of the Parliamentary Counsel.

The administration cost limit has increased by £6,926,000 from £48,207,000 to £55,133,000. This is as a result of a transfer from Cabinet Office of £226,000 detailed above; take-up of £3,300,000 Administration End Year Flexibility and an agreed transfer of £3,400,000 from programme to administration costs.

The capital element of the DEL has increased by £77,500,000 reflecting take-up of End Year Flexibility by the Olympic Delivery Authority.