Copies of the Waterways Ireland Annual Report and Accounts for the year ended 31 December 2001 have been placed in the Libraries of both Houses.

		Resources				Capital
DfES	Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non-voted	Change	New DEL	Of which: Voted	Non-voted
	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0	£0
RfR l	276,464	22,161,756	7,258,103	14,903,653	72,049	3,410,719	2,290,128	1,120,591
RfR 2	215,797	695,928	695,928	0	2,911	30,536	30,536	0
RfR 3	85,463	285,476	285,476	0	0	51	51	0
OFSTED	1,217	208,635	208,635	0	-1,142	1,758	1,758	0
Sub Total	578,941	23,351,795	8,448,142	14,903,653	73,818	3,443,064	2,322,473	1,120,591
Depreciation*	-556	-47,544	-11,847	-35,697	0	0	0	0
Total	578,385	23,304,251	8,436,295	14,867,956	73,818	3,443,064	2,322,473	1,120,591
*Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.

Within the administration cost limits changes, the impact is set out in the following table:

DfES	Original £'000	Change £'000	Revised £'000
DfES (RfR1)	207,124	12,796	219,920
Sure Start (RfR 2)	9,136	4,268	13,404
Children's Fund (RfR3	4,400	1,181	5,581
OFSTED	30,000		30,000
Total	250,660	18,245	268,905

RESOURCE DELThe change in the resource element of the DEL of £578,941,000 arises from a £220,452,000 decrease in the voted element of the resource DEL and an increase of £799,393,000 in the non-voted element of the resource DEL mainly to the Department's non-departmental public bodies.Voted Resource DELThe £220,452,000 decrease in the voted element of the resource DEL arises from a £522,929,000 decrease in RfR1; from the movement of £312,996,000 to non-Voted Resource DEL; the movement of £44,370,000 to voted capital grants and £208,000 to non-voted capital; the decrease in Voted provision as a result of receiving Voted Appropriations in Aid (A-in-A) of £259,638,000 towards the Higher Education Funding Council for England's Non-Voted expenditure: the net transfer to the Department of Health of £4,372,000 for the

Subject to Parliamentary approval of any necessary supplementary estimate, the Department for Education and Skills DEL (including the Office for Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools (OFSTED) which has a separate estimate) will be increased by £652,759,000 from £26,142,100,000 to £26,794,859,000 and the administration costs limits will be increased by £18,245,000 from £250,660,000 to £268,905,000.Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:Teenage Pregnancy Fund and the Children's Trust; the net transfer to the Home Office of £880,000 for Prison Education; the transfer to the Department of Environment Food and Rural Affairs of £500,000 for the school milk subsidy scheme; the transfer to the Department of Trade and Industry of £279,000 for the Women's Resource Centre and the School Teachers Pay Review Body; the transfer to the Department for Work and Pensions of £93,000 for the Parental involvement in Action Team; the net transfer in from the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister of £1,303,000 for the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit; the take up of £95,816,000 End of Year Flexibility (EYF) provision; the take up of £761,000 for the Education in Prisons scheme and the take up of Invest to Save Budget of £100,000 for the Core Cluster Pilot project. The transfer to the Office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England (OFSTED) of £75,000 for the project on best practice to food and nutrition in primary schools and early years, the net virement of £4,802,000 from RfR2 for Standards Fund Grants, and the net virement of £2,300,000 to RfR3 for Children's Fund Grants are departmental DEL neutral.The £215,797,000 increase in RfR2; arises from the take up of £221,599,000 End of Year Flexibility (EYF) provision for Sure Start administrative expenditure (£468,000) and for Sure Start programmes (£221,131,000); the DEL neutral virements of £4,802,000 to RFR1 for Standards Fund Grant payments and the £1,000,000 virement to RfR3 Children's Fund for Children and Young People programmes.

Parliamentary approval for additional resources of £111.8 million is being sought in a spring supplementary estimate for the Teachers' Pension Scheme. Pending that approval, expenditure estimated at £30 million will be met by a repayable cash advance from the Contingencies Fund.The Teachers' Pension Scheme Fund is managed by the Department for Education and Skills and administered under contract by Capita Business Service Ltd. The Department's funding to Capita is completed on a daily basis with the funded amount being determined by the "net cash requirement" for payments that Capita makes on behalf of the Teachers' Pension Scheme.Cash drawn down from the Consolidated Fund is greater at the beginning of each month because income and related cash arrives too late to fund this expenditure. To enable the Department to meet its funding obligations the £30 million will be required to make up the shortfall between the funding requirement and the Spring Supplementary Estimate provision becoming available.

I have placed in the Libraries of both Houses a copy of DFID's new Water Action Plan. It sets out how DFID will contribute to meeting the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), through our commitments to water supply, sanitation and water resource management.Over one billion people do not have access to safe water to drink. Over two billion lack adequate sanitation. Hundreds of millions of people live in areas where there is an overall and increasing shortage of water. Polluted ecosystems and poor water management have a detrimental effect on the health and livelihoods of poor people, and on economic growth. Water and sanitation are consistently among the top priorities of poor people in most developing countries. This does not however always result in action by Governments.The problems are complex. The approach set out in the Water Action Plan recognises that efforts to improve water supply, sanitation or water resource management are most effective when they support developing country Governments' own plans. Against this background, DFID's Water Action Plan sets out a plan of work at international regional and national levels. This includes: making sure water and sanitation figure prominently in policy discussions with our main partner countries; providing evidence of the links between improved water management, water supply and sanitation and achieving all the MDGs, and ensuring that we are making use of this evidence in our policy dialogue; and improving the way the international system works, by focusing support on key international partnerships and networks, particularly those that can improve co-ordination in the water sector.The next step is putting this Action Plan into operation, to ensure a coherent approach to water and sanitation issues at national, regional and international levels. This will include developing milestones against which progress can be assessed. As part of its review of progress, DFID will also establish a regular water and sanitation forum in the UK for sharing knowledge and ideas with development partners.The Water Action Plan is also available on the DFID website: