Statement
My honourable friend the Minister of State, Department of Health (Ben Bradshaw) has made the following Written Ministerial Statement.
Subject to the necessary supplementary estimate, the Department of Health's element of the departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will increase by £26,403,000 from £98,565,431,000 to £98,591,834,000 and the administration cost limit will be increased by £3,280,000 from £219,163,000 to £222,443,000. The Food Standards Agency DEL increases by £700,000 from £137,720,000 to £138,420,000. The overall DEL including the Food Standards Agency will increase by £27,103,000 from £98,703,151,000 to £98,730,254,000. The impact on resource and capital are set out in the following table:
Voted £m Non-voted £m Voted £m Non-voted £m Total £m Department of Health Resource DEL, of which 98.020 -271.417 94,542.385 -860.463 93,681.922 Administration Budget * 3.280 222.443 222.443 Near-cash in Resource DEL -119.972 -56.425 89,910.900 588.653 90,499.553 Capital DEL 101.029 98.771 2,033.840 2,876.072 4,909.912 Total Department of Health DEL 199.049 -172.646 96,576.225 2,015.609 98,591.834 Depreciation ** 41.592 -16.336 -744.002 -75.736 -819.738 Total Department of Health spending (after adjustment) 240.641 -188.982 95,832.223 1,939.873 97,772.096 Food Standards Agency Resource DEL, of which 0.250 0.000 136.939 136.939 Administration Budget * 0.700 51.140 51.140 Near-cash in Resource DEL -0.450 133.800 0.700 134.500 Capital DEL 0.450 1.481 1.481 Total Food Standards Agency DEL 0.700 0.000 138.420 0.000 138.420 Depreciation ** -1.955 -1.955 Total Food Standards Agency spending (after adjustment) 0.700 0.000 136.465 0.000 136.465
* The total of administration budget and near-cash in resource DEL figures may well be greater that the total resource DEL, due to definitions overlapping.
** Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL since the capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.
The Department of Health DEL has increased by £26,403,000 made up of:
the take-up of £3,000,000 (administration costs) end-year flexibility as announced in the provisional outturn White Paper (Cm 7419);
£30,000 (£-200,000 capital) for adjustments to Invest to Save budget awards;
a net transfer of £296,000 (administration costs) from the Cabinet Office for services of the Parliamentary Counsel, offset by funding for the centre of expertise for sustainable procurement (administration cost limit);
a transfer of £-16,000 (administration costs) to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills for the skills training strategy (administration cost limit);
a net transfer of £-5,025,000 to the Department for Children, Schools and Families mainly for substance misuse funding offset by a grant for the child migrant trusts;
a net transfer of £28,318,000 with the Ministry of Justice mainly for adjustments to prison healthcare budgets offset by funding for mental health review tribunals; and
a transfer of £-200,000 to the Statistics Board for information on migration statistics.
In addition, there is movement from the revenue to capital DEL of £200,000,000 to allow for increased capital investment in the NHS.
The Department of Health’s administration cost limit has increased by £3,280,000 as described above.
The change to the Food Standards Agency element of the DEL is due to:
a transfer of £450,000 from programme into capital; and
reinstatement of £700,000 non-cash budget to the Comprehensive Spending Review settlement position.