Departmental Expenditure Limit (2010-11) Debate

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Department: Department of Health and Social Care

Departmental Expenditure Limit (2010-11)

Simon Burns Excerpts
Monday 14th February 2011

(13 years, 3 months ago)

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Subject to the necessary supplementary estimates, the Department of Health’s element of the departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will reduce by £789,000 from £106,281,232,000, to £106,280,443,000 the administration cost limit remains unchanged at £215,280,000. The Food Standards Agency DEL remains unchanged at £114,930,000. The administration cost limit remains unchanged at £50,910,000. The overall DEL including the Food Standards Agency will reduce by £789,000 from £106,396,162,000 to £106,395,373,000. The impact on resource and capital is set out in the following table:

ChangeNew DEL

Voted

£m

Non

voted

£m

Voted £m

Non

voted

£m

Total

£m

Department of Health

Resource DEL, of which

299.211

300.000

101,440.252

-56.661

101,383.591

Administration Budget

-

-

210.280

5.000

215.280

Capital DEL*

-

0

2,150.189

2,746.663

4,896.852

Total Department of Health DEL

299.211

300.000

103,590.441

2,690.002

106,280.443

Depreciation **

-

-

-1,119.419

0

-1,119.419

Total Department of Health spending (after adjustment)

299.211

300.000

102,471.022

2,690.002

105,161.024

Food Standards Agency

Resource DEL, of which

-2.661

2.661

111.668

2.661

114.329

Administration Budget

-0.469

0.469

50.441

0.469

50.910

Capital DEL*

-

-

0.601

-

0.601

Total Food Standards Agency DEL

-2.661

2.661

112.269

2.661

114.930

Depreciation **

-

-

-1.861

-

-1.861

Total Food Standards Agency spending (after adjustment)

-2.661

2.661

110.408

2.661

113.069

*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 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 reduced by £789,000, this comprises:

a transfer of £211,000 from the Ministry of Justice mainly for prison healthcare services; and

a transfer of £1,000,000 to the Ministry of Justice for costs associated with the transfer of mental health review tribunals.

The Department of Health’s administration cost limit is unchanged.

The Food Standards Agency DEL figure remains unchanged overall, but there has been a switch from voted DEL to non voted DEL of £2,661,000. This is reducing voted DEL expenditure and increasing non voted DEL for the utilisation of pension and early retirement provisions. This is consistent with the Food Standards Agency increase in AME figures.

The Food Standards Agency’s administration costs limit is unchanged.