My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (Margaret Beckett) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Foreign and Commonwealth Office departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £62,281,000, from £1,816,520,000 to £1,878,801,000. The administration budget will be increased by £29,341,000, from £862,101,000 to £891,442,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is set out in the following table.
Voted Non-Voted Voted Non-Voted Total Resource 66,781 -4,500 1,814,209 66,213 1,880,422 Of which: Administration budget * 14,841 14,500 841,942 49,500 891,422 Near-cash in RDEL 66,781 -4,500 1,657,490 31,213 1,688,703 Capital** 0 0 149,003 1,000 150,003 Depreciation*** 0 0 -116,624 -35,000 -151,624 Total 66,781 -4,500 1,846,588 32,213 1,878,801 *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 the 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:
RfR1
Administration
Take-up of £14,755,000 end-year flexibility (EYF) entitlement.
Budget cover transfer from the Cabinet Office of £73,000 for the Parliamentary Counsel Office.
Budget transfer for police pension costs for Consular of £13,000 from the Home Office.
Programme
Budget transfer for police pension costs for Global Opportunities Fund (GOF) Counter-Terrorism and Economic Governance of £52,000 from the Home Office.
Budget transfer for police pension costs for GOF Drugs and Crime of £52,000 from the Home Office.
Draw-down from the departmental unallocated provision of £4,500,000 for the Better Basra project.
Budget transfer to the SIA of £7,075,000 for planned programme activity.
Movement from capital to capital grant of £1,600,000 to pay invoice for government secure zone by the Cabinet Office.
Neutral Changes
An increase in income and expenditure of £6,000,000 for Afghan Delivery Plan, offset by income from the Home Office.
An increase in income and expenditure of £8,500,000 for Afghan Delivery Plan, offset by income from the MoD.
RfR2
Programme
Budget transfer for police pension costs for Africa Peacekeeping of £141,000 from the Home Office.
Budget transfer for police pension costs for Global Peacekeeping of £1,270,000 from the Home Office.
Draw-down of £25,000,000 from the Africa Peacekeeping main estimate provision.
Draw-down of £25,000,000 from the Global Peacekeeping main estimate provision.
Budget transfer for agreed global conflict prevention pool activity of £3,000,000 from the Department for International Development.
Changes in Capital
Movement from capital to capital grant of £1,600,000 to pay invoice for government secure zone by the Cabinet Office.
Neutral Changes
An increase in income and expenditure of £11,000,000 for biometrics offset by income from the Home Office.
An increase in income and expenditure of £39,000,000 relating to the asset recycling agreement.