My honourable friend the Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office and Minister for the East Midlands (Gillian Merron) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the National School of Government departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £802,000 from £415,000 to £1,217,000 and the administration costs limit will be £1,217,000. Voted capital will increase by £401,000 to £1,270,000. These figures reflect a take-up of end-year flexibility from 2006-07 and a transfer of £200,000 from resource to capital.
Within the DEL change, the impact of resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
£’000 Change Voted Total Resource 802 1,217 1,217 Of which: Administration budget* 802 1,217 1,217 Near-cash in RDEL 802 117 117 Capital** 401 1,270 1,270 Depreciation*** 0 -500 -500 Total 1,203 1,987 1,987
* The total of the administration budget and the near cash in resource DEL figures may well be greater than the total resource DEL, due to definitions overlapping.
** Capital DEL includes items treated as resources 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.