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Departmental Expenditure Limit (2009-10)

Volume 501: debated on Tuesday 24 November 2009

Subject to parliamentary approval of the winter supplementary estimate, HM Treasury’s resource DEL will be increased by £15,000,000 from £215,747,000 to £230,747,000. The administration budget will be increased by £15,000,000 from £165,145,000 to £180,145,000 and the capital DEL will be reduced by £625,000,000 from £781,942,000 to £156,942,000. The impact on resources, including the administration budget, and capital is set out in the following table:

ChangeNew DEL

Voted

Non- voted

Voted

Non-voted

Total

Resource

18,631,000

-3,631,000

209,903,000

20,844,000

230,747,000

of which:

Administration budget*

16,531,000

-1,531,000

180,145,000

-

180,145,000

Near cash in RDEL*

18,631,000

-3,631,000

200,218,000

31,444,000

231,662,000

Capital**

-625,000,000

-

154,800,000

2,142,000

156,942,000

Less: Depreciation***

-

-

-7,915,000

-

-7,915,000

Total

-606,369,000

-3,631,000

356,788,000

22,986,000

379,774,000

*The total of the ‘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 the total DEL since Capital DEL includes Capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.

The net increase in resource DEL and the Administration Budget of £15,000,000 is the net effect of the take up of Administration Budget EYF in RfR 1 Section A to fund the costs of the increased workload arising from financial stability work.

There is a reduction in non-voted DEL of £3,631,000 due to the draw down of Departmental Unallocated Provision (£1,531,000 Administration Budget and £2,100,000 programme costs) to offset increased voted spending in RfR 1 Section A.

The capital DEL is being reduced by £625,000,000 following the revision of forecast spending in 2009-10 by the Infrastructure Finance Unit Ltd.