My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (Ed Balls) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Subject to parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Children, Schools and Families departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £131,548,000 from £50,559,305,000 to £50,690,853,000, the administration cost budget will be increased by £3,300,000 from £192,477,000 to £195,777,000. There is no change for the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills (OFSTED), whose DEL remains at £221,790,000 and administration cost budget remains at £28,955,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
Change New DEL of which: Voted of which: Non-voted Change New DEL of which: Voted of which: Non-voted £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 £000 RfR1 219,537 43,538,008 42,322,400 1,215,608 -86,000 5,210,255 4,165,399 1,044,856 RfR2 -22,933 1,200,121 1,200,121 0 86,000 617,425 617,425 0 RfR3 -65,056 125,044 125,044 0 0 0 0 0 DCSF Total 131,548 44,863,173 43,647,565 1,215,608 0 5,827,680 4,782,824 1,044,856 OFSTED 0, 220,809 220,809 0 0 981 981 0 Sub-Total 131,548 45,083,982 43,868,374 1,215,608 0 5,828,661 4,783,805 1,044,856 ** Of which Admin Budget 3,300 224,732 224,732 0 0 0 0 0 Near cash in RDEL 126,162 45,091,267 43,836,388 1,254,878 0 0 0 0 Depreciation* -6,718 -17,817 -12,835 -4,982 0 0 0 0 Total 124,830 45,066,165 43,855,539 1,210,626 0 5,828,661 4,783,805 1,044,856
* Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, in the table above, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
** 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.
Within the administration cost budget changes, the impact is set out in the following table:
DfES Original Change Revised £’000 £’000 £’000 DfES (RfR1) 192,477 3,300 195,777 OFSTED 28,955 0 28,955 Total 221,432 3,300 224,732
Resource DEL
The £131,548,000 increase in the voted element of the resource DEL arises from a decrease in the voted element of the resource DEL of £95,208,000 and an increase of £226,756,000 in the non-voted element of resource DEL.
Voted Resource DEL
The £95,208,000 decrease in the voted element of the resource DEL arises from:
RFR1
The take-up of end-year flexibility of £135,294,000 for central administration costs (£2,000,000), for central services programme costs (£16,685,000), for school central programmes (£27,300,000), Children’s Services and programmes (£12,500,000), Schools Standards Fund (£65,769,000), departmental restructuring (£11,040,000).
A movement from Sure Start RFR2 to RFR1 £4,026,000 towards the costs of early-years foundations.
A movement of £65,056,000 from Children’s fund RfR3 to local area agreements.
A movement to Sure Start RFR2 of £50,000 from schools central programmes for the Formula Development Project.
A movement to non-budget of £206,799,000 for Learner Support (£13,170,000), 14-19 development (£70,379,000), teachers’ pay and performance (£119,629,000), TEC property costs (£3,621,000).
A transfer to the Department for Innovations, Universities and Skills for £4,746,000 in respect of adult training and skills.
RFR2
The take-up of end-year flexibility of £1,000,000 for Sure Start family unit grants.
A movement from RfR1 of £50,000 to Sure Start central grants for the Formula Development Project.
A movement to RFR1 £4,026,000 for costs to support the roll out of the early-years foundation stage (£2,000,000), for groups contribution to the Flood Recovery Grant (£2,000,000), for the early-years census (£26,000).
A movement to non-voted of £19,957,000 for teacher training.
RFR3
A movement of £65,056,000 to local area agreements RfR1.
Non-voted resource DEL
The increase in non-voted resource DEL of £226,756,000 arises from:
A movement from RFR1 of £206,799,000 for learner support (£13,170,000), 14-19 development (£70,379,000), teachers’ pay and performance (£119,629,000), TEC property costs (£3,621,000).
A movement from RFR2 of £19,957,000 for teacher training.
Capital DEL
There is no increase/decrease in capital DEL, but there are movements between voted and non-voted capital DEL.
Voted Capital DEL
RFR1
A movement of £86,000,000 from School Standard Funds to Sure Start capital grants through local authorities RfR2.
A movement of £416,228,000 from non-voted capital DEL which is made up of £310,000,000 for City Academies, £80,644,000 for school standards, £25,584,000 for ICT in schools.
RFR2
A movement of £86,000,000 from School Standard Funds RFR1 to capital grants through local authorities.
Non-voted Capital DEL
A movement of £416,228,000 to voted capital DEL which is made up of £310,000,000 for City Academies, £80,644,000 for school standards, £25,584,000 for ICT in schools.
Administration Cost Budget
The take up of end-year flexibility of £2,000,000 to cover net pressure on departmental administration costs.
A reclassification of £1,300,000 from further education programme costs.