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Written question asked by Oliver Letwin (Conservative) on Wednesday, 12 December 2007, in the House of Commons. It was due for an answer on Monday, 17 December 2007. It was answered by Jonathan Shaw (Labour) on Thursday, 10 January 2008 on behalf of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

Departmental Public Expenditure

Question
To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs pursuant to the Winter Supplementary Estimates (HC 29), if he will break down his Department's (a) main estimate and (b) winter supplementary estimate provision by subhead in (i) near cash and (ii) non-cash terms.
Answer

Near-cash and non-cash are essentially used as Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) budgetary control concepts and are not specifically identified with voted resources in estimates. However, we have been able to break down net total resources for each section in the Part II: Subhead detail table of our Main Estimate and Winter Supplementary Estimate as follows:

Part II Subhead—Main Estimate
£000
Non-cash Near-cash Net total resource
Spending in Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL)
Central Government spending
A Animal Health and Welfare — 301,914 301,914
B Environment — 1,104,082 1,104,082
C Sustainable Farming Food and Fisheries — 88,313 88,313
D Natural Resources and Rural Affairs — 343,119 343,119
E Departmental Operations 23,712 204,867 228,579
F Rural Payments Agency EC Funded — 2,297,122 2,297,122
G Rural Payments Agency running costs — 157,882 157,882
H Rural Payments Agency other 82,400 — 82,400
I Other executive agencies 29,438 106,811 136,249
Support for local authorities
J Environment — 144,537 144,537
K Rural Payments Agency EC Funded — 4,992 4,992
Spending in Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
Central Government spending
L Environment 55,600 — 55,600
— — —
Non-Budget — — —
M Environment — 692,778 692,778
N Sustainable Farming Food and Fisheries — 9,391 9,391
O Natural Resources and Rural Affairs — 199,654 199,654
P Departmental Operations — 24,899 24,899
Q Rural Payments Agency EC Funded — — —
R Other executive agencies — — —
— — —
Total for Estimate 191,150 5,680,361 5,871,511
Part II Subhead—Winter Supplementary Estimate
£000
Non-cash Near-cash Net Total Resource
Spending in Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL)
Central Government spending
A Animal Health and Welfare — 262,119 262,119
B Environment — 919,763 919,763
C Sustainable Farming Food and Fisheries — 84,314 84,314
D Natural Resources and Rural Affairs — 328,861 328,861
E Departmental Operations 34,712 216,053 250,765
F Rural Payments Agency EC Funded 0 2,297,207 2,297,207
G Rural Payments Agency running costs 21,815 244,224 266,039
H Rural Payments Agency other 82,400 — 82,400
I Other executive agencies 32,115 107,455 139,570
Support for local authorities
J Environment — 144,537 144,537
K Rural Payments Agency EC Funded — 4,992 4,992
Spending in Annually Managed Expenditure (AME)
Central Government spending
L Environment 55,600 — 55,600
Non-Budget
M Environment — 693,930 693,930
N Sustainable Farming Food and Fisheries — 9,391 9,391
O Natural Resources and Rural Affairs — 200,207 200,207
P Departmental Operations — 24,899 24,899
Q Rural Payments Agency EC Funded — — —
R Other executive agencies — — —
Spending in Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL)
Central Government spending
S Local Area Agreements — 118,621 118,621
Total for Estimate 226,642 5,656,573 5,883,215

Secondary information

Type
Written question
Reference
470 c738-40W; 174989
Session
2007-08
Related items
Subjects
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Public expenditure
Link
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