Department Expenditure Limits Index

Departmental Expenditure Limits (DELs) are firm plans for three years for the major part (in most cases) of each department's expenditure. In general the DEL will cover all running costs and most programme expenditure. In a few exceptional cases, spending is not recorded in DEL but is instead in departmental Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) because it cannot reasonably be subject to close control over a three year period.

DELs are divided into current and capital budgets.

This section presents a departmental breakdown of central government's own expenditure, current and capital, actual and planned, for the years 2001/02 to 2005/06. Data are consistent with Public Expenditure Outturns News Release and Spending Review 2004

Data on RAB stage 1 basis (also consistent with Public Expenditure Outturns News Release) are available on the downloadable Excel and CSV files (see links below).

For further explanation of departmental groupings please see appendix C in Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses 2004.

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Internal links

• Departmental Expenditure Limits - Total Budgets
• Departmental Expenditure Limits - real terms
• Departmental Expenditure Limits - resource and capital budgets

Media links

• Excel file of Departmental Expenditure Limits data
• CSV file of Departmental Expenditure Limits data
• PDF of PESA 2004 appendices (Appendix C for departmental groupings)

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