Monday 14th February 2011

(13 years, 9 months ago)

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Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the departmental expenditure limit (DEL) provision for the administration of the Scotland Office (including the office of the Advocate-General for Scotland) will be increased by £1,900,000 and this takes account of the take-up of resource DEL End Year Flexibility of £1,900,000.

Scotland Office spending is contained within the single Ministry of Justice departmental expenditure limit and administration costs limit.

The Scotland DEL will be decreased by £116,335,000 from £28,703,787,000 to £28,587,452,000. Within the total DEL change, the impact on resources and capital is set out in the following table:

£'000

Change

New DEL

Resource DEL

-16.335

25,841,119

Capital DEL

-100,000

3,288,567

Resource DEL + Capital DEL

-116,335

29,129,686

Less Depreciation

-

542,234

Total DEL

-116,335

28,587,452



The decrease in the Scotland DEL takes account of the following adjustments to the Scottish Government provision:

A DEL Reduction of £130,000,000(£30,000,000 resource and £100,000,000 capital);

A claim on the DEL reserve of £28,665,000 for Student Loans Subsidy (cost of loan interest capping); and

A transfer of £15,000,000 to the Scotland Office to cover the costs of the forthcoming Scottish Parliament Election.