Winter Supplementary Estimates 2007-08

The Winter Supplementary Estimates and New Estimates, presented to the House of Commons today, seek authority for expenditure by government departments of £6,146 million in resources and £7,535 million in cash. The Estimates seek parliamentary authority for increased resources and cash both for existing services and for any necessary new services.

These Estimates do not involve any change in total spending plans because any increases sought have either been offset by savings elsewhere in departmental programmes, charged to the Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) Reserve or represent shifts against the Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) Margin. Since the Reserve and the Margin are part of Total Managed Expenditure, the planned public expenditure total remains unchanged.

Within the overall increase there is a charge to the DEL Reserve of £4.3billion (£2.70billion resource DEL and £1.60billion capital DEL), of which £2.1billion (£1.14billion resource and £0.96billion capital) relates to take up of End Year Flexibility entitlements (provision carried forward from previous years), and an increase of £1.4billion in the departmental programmes within AME.

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