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 Estimate, the Charity Commission total DEL will be increased by £2,800,000 from £31,993,000 to £34,793,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is as set out in the following table:
Change New DEL £’000 Voted Non- voted Voted Non- voted Total Resource DEL of which* 2,600 0 34,343 0 34,343 Administration budget 2,600 0 34,343 0 34,343 Near cash in RDEL - 0 30,732 30,732 Capital DEL** 200 0 1,100 0 1,100 Depreciation*** - 0 -650 0 -650 Total 2,800 0 34,793 0 34,793
* 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 the take-up of £2.6 million from the modernisation fund (out of a total £3 million agreed in the CSR 07 settlement). This funding will be used to pay for staff severances consequent upon the Commission’s reprioritisation and restructuring exercise, which will enable the commission to meet the CSR settlement through to 2010-11.
The change in the capital element of the DEL reflects take-up of £200,000 from prior years’ EYF to fund the completion of capital projects to enhance the effectiveness of IT systems and increase the availability of online services.
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 £50,000 by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office for the continuation of the International Outreach project; and
£50,000 additional accommodation charges funded by the sub-letting of a floor at the commission’s London office building.