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Written statement made by Douglas Alexander (Labour) on Thursday, 12 February 2009 in the House of Commons, on behalf of the Department for International Development.

Departmental Expenditure Limits

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the Department for International Development's departmental expenditure limit (DEL) will be reduced by £29,787,000 from £5,736,451,000 to £5,706,664,000. With the DEL change, the impact on resources and capital are as set out in the following table:

£000
Change New DEL
Voted Non-voted Voted Non-voted Total
Resource DEL -12,494 -17,293 3,997,815 839,849 4,837,664
Of which:
Administration budget¹ 848 -853 162,950 — 162,950
Near-cash in RDEL -22,494 -7,293 3,898,815 849,849 4,748,664
Capital DEL² 10,000 -10,000 891,000 — 891,000
Less Depreciation³ — — -22,000 — -22,000
Total -2,494 -27,293 4,866,815 839,849 5,706,664
¹ The total of 'Administration budget' and 'Near-cash in Resource DEL' figures may well be greater than total resource DEL, due to the definitions overlapping.
² Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimate and Accounts but which are treated as Capital DEL in budgets.
³ Depreciation, which forms part of the resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of these assets would lead to double counting.

The net change in the 'Resource' element of DEL arises from: Additions:"£916,000 transferred from the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of Stabilisation Aid Fund projects in Afghanistan." Reductions"£1,650,000 transferred to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport in respect of projects connected to the London 2012 Olympics.""£300,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of payments to locally engaged staff in Iraq.""£1,000,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of the Returns and Reintegration Fund.""£5,000 transferred to the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills in respect of the Skills Strategy for Government project.""£6,716,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of the Conflict Prevention Pool.""£18,899,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of the Conflict Prevention Pool.""£216,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of a Conflict Pool project in Ghana.""£917,000 transferred to the Ministry of Defence in respect of Stabilisation Aid Fund projects in Iraq.""£1,000,000 transferred to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in respect of a Police Reform project in Pakistan." There is no net change in the 'Capital' element of DEL.

Secondary information

Type
Written statement
Reference
487 c100-1WS;487 c98-9WS 
Session
2008-09
Related items
Departmental Public Expenditure
Monday, 9 March 2009
Written questions
House of Commons
Subjects
Department for International Development Public expenditure Supply estimates Departmental expenditure limits
Contains statistics
Yes
Link
View this Written statement on www.publications.parliament.uk