Wednesday 12th February 2014

(10 years, 3 months ago)

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Alistair Carmichael Portrait The Secretary of State for Scotland (Mr Alistair Carmichael)
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Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate the Scottish Government’s DEL net of depreciation and impairments will be increased by £218,114,000 from £28,304,169,000 to £28,522,283,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is set out in the following table:

£'000 Change New DEL

Fiscal RDEL -63,888 25,608,103

Ring-fenced Depreciation within

Fiscal RDEL

-63,888

25,608,103

Ring-fenced depreciation within RDEL

3,615

640,882

Ring-fenced student loans within RDEL

50,741

184,687

Capital DEL

282,002

2,914,180

Resource DEL + Capital DEL

272,470

29,347,852

Les depreciation and impairments

-54,356

-825,569

Total DEL

218,114

28,522,283



The increase in the Scotland DEL takes account of the following adjustments to the Scottish Government provision amounting to increases of £272,470,000:

Devolved Administration Budget Exchange carry forward of £186.$28,000 (£150,581,000) resource, £30,391,000 capital and £5,356,000 ring fenced depreciation);

Increase of £993,000 for Autumn 2013 Statement Bamett consequentials (Capital)];

Transfer from the Department for Culture Media and Sport Energy and Climate Change of £300,000 in respect of the Edinburgh Pilot Project (Capital);

Transfer from the Department for Culture Media and Sport Energy and Climate Change of £7,350,000 in respect of Urban Broadband (Capital);

Transfer from the Department of Energy and Climate Change of £13,961,000 in respect of the Green Deal (Capital);

Transfer from the Ministry of Justice of £29,000 for Administrative Justice Tribunal Council (Resource);

A reserve claim of £2,409,000 in respect of the G8 Policing Costs (Resource);

A reserve claim of £2,100,000 in respect of the Coastal Communities Fund (Resource);

A reserve claim of £10,000,000 in respect of the Utilisation of Scottish Cultural Collections revenue (Non Cash Capital);

An increase in the Student Loan Subsidy impairments of £49,000,000 (Ring Fenced); and

A switch of £220,000,000 from resource DEL to capital DEL.

The overall effect of these changes is to increase the grant to the Scottish Consolidated Fund by £122,525,000.