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Departmental Expenditure Limit (2009-10)

Volume 501: debated on Tuesday 24 November 2009

As a consequence of budgetary transfers associated with the Winter Supplementary Estimates, the Department for International Development's total departmental expenditure limit will be reduced by £27,786,000 from £6,785,560,000 to £6,757,774,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on Resource and Capital is set out in the following table:

£'000ChangeNew DEL

Voted

Non-Voted

Voted

Non-Voted

Total

Resource DEL

-

(27,536)

4,299,064

1,112,960

5,412,024

Of which:*

Administration Budget

-

1,000

156,609

3,341

159,950

Near-cash in RDEL

-

(27,536)

4,204,064

1,112,960

5,317,024

Capital DEL

-

(250)

1,356,000

9,750

1,365,750

Less Depreciation**

-

-

(20,000)

-

(20,000)

Total DEL

(27,786)

5,635,064

1,122,710

6,757,774

* The total of ‘Administration budget' and ‘Near-cash in Resource DEL 'figures may well he greater than total resource DEL, due to the definitions overlapping.

** Depreciation, which forms part of the resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of these assets would lead to double counting.

The net change in the Resource element of DEL arises from: Additions

£500,000 transferred to DFID from the Ministry of Defence in relation to Stabilisation Unit.

£500,000 transferred to DFID from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to Stabilisation Unit.

£6,729,000 transferred to DFID from the Ministry of Defence in relation to Conflict Prevention Pool.

Reductions

£6,000,000 transferred from DFID to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to the Returns and Reintegration Fund.

£800,000 transferred from DFID to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in relation to London 2012 International Inspiration.

£11,500,000 transferred from DFID to Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to Conflict Prevention in Afghanistan.

£15,465,000 transferred from DFID to Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to Conflict Prevention Pool.

£1,500,000 transferred from DFID to Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to Conflict Prevention in Sri Lanka.

The net change in the Capital element of DEL arises from:

Reductions

£250,000 transferred from DFID to Foreign and Commonwealth Office in relation to refurbishment of shared Delhi office.