My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for International Development (Douglas Alexander) has made the following Statement:
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for International Development’s departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be increased by £22,568,000 from £5,254,357,000 to £5,276,925,000.
Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:
Voted Non- voted Voted Non- voted Total Resource DEL 42,637 -38,069 3,852,865 710,820 4,563,685 of which: Administration budget* 10 - 232,010 - 232,010 Near-cash in RDEL 62,637 -38,069 3,787,436 726,870 4,514,306 Capital DEL** 15,000 - 731,250 - 731,250 Less Depreciation*** 3,000 - -18,010 - -18,010 Total DEL 60,637 -38,069 4,566,105 710,820 5,276,925
* 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 the resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of these assets would lead to double counting.
The net change in the resource element of DEL arises from:
Additions
£9,660,000 transferred from the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in respect of Global Conflict Prevention Pool
£50,000 transferred from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
Reductions
£1,500,000 transferred to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office Global Conflict Prevention Pool for projects in Sri Lanka.
£3,413,000 transferred to the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in respect of Africa Conflict Prevention Pool.
£229,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of Africa Conflict Prevention Pool.
The net change in the capital element of DEL arises from:
Additions
£15,000,000 drawdown of capital provision from end of year flexibility entitlement set out in the Public Expenditure 2006-07 Outturn White Paper.