Department of Health: DEL The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Health (Lord Darzi of Denham) My right honourable friend the Secretary of State for Health (Alan Johnson) 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 be increased by £7,208,000 from £93,848,552,000 to £93,855,760,000 and the administration cost limit will be increased by £6,370,000 from £224,633,000 to £231,003,000. The Food Standards Agency DEL remains unchanged at £154,339,000. The overall DEL including the Food Standards Agency will increase by £7,208, 000 from £94,002,891,000 to £94,010,099,000. The impact on resource and capital are set out in the following table. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | |Voted |Non-voted |Voted |Non-voted |Total | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Department of Health |£ million|£ million |£ million |£ million |£ million | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Resource DEL |2,474.227|-2,467.293|91,266.570|-1,730.982|89,535.588| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Of which: | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Administration budget* |6.370 | |231.003 | |231.003 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Near-cash in Resource DEL |1,617.979|-1,430.783|86,424.838|-584.733 |85,840.105| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Capital DEL |66.075 |-65.801 |1,803.265 |2,516.907 |4,320.172 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total Department of Health DEL |2,540.302|-2,533.094|93,069.835|785.925 |93,855.760| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Depreciation** |114.672 |76.313 |-785.253 |-109.569 |-894.822 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total Department of Health spending (after adjustment) |2,654.974|-2,456.781|92,284.582|676.356 |92,960.938| --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Food Standards Agency | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Resources | | |152.392 | |152.392 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Of which: | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Administration budget* | | |56.515 | |56.515 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Near-cash in Resource DEL | | |149.584 | |149.584 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Capital | | |1.947 | |1.947 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total Food Standards Agency DEL | | | | | | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Depreciation* | | |-2.004 | |-2.004 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |Total Food Standards Agency spending (after adjustment)| | |152.335 | |152.335 | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * 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 £7,208,000 made up of: the take-up of £6,000,000 (administration costs) end-year flexibility as announced in the provisional outturn White Paper (Cm 7156) for a range of planned non-recurrent expenditure which includes; activities for professional, regulation and leadership and the “Five Programmes with the NHS” work, £838,000 (£214,000 capital) for round 8 and 9 Invest to Save budget awards; a transfer of £370,000 (administration costs) from the Cabinet Office for services of the Parliamentary Counsel; and a £60,000 adjustment to budgets which reduces capital charges (revenue) for care standards tribunal services (which moved from the Ministry of Justice) and increases capital by £60,000. The Department of Health’s administration cost limit has increased by £6,370,000 as described above. There is no change to the Food Standards Agency element of the DEL.