Departmental Expenditure Limit (2010-11) Debate

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Department: Department for Transport

Departmental Expenditure Limit (2010-11)

Lord Hammond of Runnymede Excerpts
Wednesday 30th March 2011

(13 years, 7 months ago)

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Lord Hammond of Runnymede Portrait The Secretary of State for Transport (Mr Philip Hammond)
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Subject to parliamentary approval, the Department for Transport departmental expenditure limit (DEL) for 2010-11 will be amended as set out in the following table:

£’000

Change

NEW DEL

Voted

Non-voted

Voted

Non-voted

Total

Resource

-216,000

0

5,725,476

445,810

6,171,286

Of which

Administration budget

0

0

263,948

2,154

266,102

Capital

+216,000

0

6,666,423

728,127

7,394,550

Depreciation1

0

0

-802,365

-34,224

-836,589

Total

0

11,589,534

1,139,713

12,729,247

1Depreciation, which forms part of resource DEL, is excluded from the total DEL, since capital DEL includes capital spending and to include depreciation of those assets would lead to double counting.



The switch between resource and capital expenditure limits is to cover the cost of funding various rail schemes directly following a review of the Network Rail regulated asset base.