Home Department written statement – made at on 5 December 2002.
Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Home Office's Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) for 2002–03 will change as follows:
(a) the DEL will be increased by £168,713,000 from £10,340,772,000 to £10,509,485,000 and the administration cost limit will be increased by £66,928,000 from £2,681, 618,000 to £2,748,546,000. Within the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital,are set out in the following table:
Resources | Capital | |||
---|---|---|---|---|
Change | New DEL | Change | New DEL | |
Total DEL | 45,000 | 9,430,783 | 123,713 | 1,078,702 |
Of which | ||||
Voted | 8,085,505 | 901,307 | ||
Non voted | 1,345,278 | 177,395 |
The change in the resource element of the DEL arises from:
(i) Take up of End Year Flexibility including £29,567,000 for anti drugs projects; £6,577,000 for National Probation Directorate's projects and £6,326,000 for anti drugs and crime reduction research projects.
(ii) Take up from the Capital Modernisation Fund of £173,000 for Evidence Based Policy fund.
(iii) Claims on the DEL reserve totalling £77,400,000 comprising £54,000,000 for community safety officers and other policing announced in the budget 2002 and £16,400,000 for juveniles.
(iv) Changes include an increase in the administration costs limit of £66,928,000.
The change in the capital element of the DEL arises from:
(i) Take up from the Capital Modernisation Fund of £37,700,000 for additional prison places.
(ii) Take up of End Year Flexibility including £76,641,000 for Police and crime reduction projects; £51,928,000 for Prison Service related projects and 20,324,000 for accommodation centres, scanners and removal projects for the Immigration Service.
The increases will be offset by inter-departmental transfers or charged to the DEL Reserve.