My honourable friend the Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office (Phil Hope) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Plans to change the Charity Commission's departmental expenditure limit (DEL) and administration budget for 2007-08.
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary the Charity Commission total DEL will be increased by £1,001,000 from £30,992,000 to £31,993,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:
Voted Non- voted Voted Non- voted Total Resource 1,500 0 31,743 0 31,743 Of which: Administration budget* 1,500 0 31,743 0 31,743 Near cash in RDEL* 1,500 0 30,732 0 30,732 Capital DEL** -499 0 900 0 900 Depreciation *** 0 0 -650 0 -650 Total 1,001 0 31,993 0 31,993
* The total of Administration budget and Near cash in Resource DEL may 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 and in the administration budget arises from additional funding agreed in the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) settlement as follows:
expenditure of £1,000,000 to review the links between terrorist financing and charities;
£500,000 to fund additional responsibilities following the passage of the Charities Act 2006.
The change in the administration budget also arises from additional funding in the 2007 CSR settlement as detailed above.
The change in the capital element of the DEL reflects a reduction of funding on capital spending of £499,000 following the 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review settlement.
The supplementary estimate also details changes in operating appropriations in aid, fully offset by changes in spending and not impacting on the commission's departmental expenditure limit:
project funding of £450,000 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the continuation of the International Outreach project;
funding of £400,000 by the Department for Communities and Local Government for the creation of the Faith and Social Cohesion unit;
£250,000 additional accommodation charges funded by the sub-letting of a floor at the commission's London office building.