Cabinet Office Spending Review 2004 settlement

The Cabinet Office today received a settlement providing it with the resources necessary to continue to fulfil its role as a strong strategic centre of government. Over the Spending Review period the Cabinet Office will focus on the areas where it best adds value – coordinating government business and driving civil service reform.

The Spending Review also provides additional resources for the security and intelligence agencies as part of the Cabinet Office group to support a significant expansion of their international counter-terrorism capabilities.

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The Cabinet Office group’s budget will be £228 million higher in 2007-08 than in 2004-05 as a result of this Spending Review
In particular, the core Cabinet Office’s budget in 2007-08 is £10 million lower than in 2004-05, while the Single Intelligence Accounts’ budget will be £242 million higher in 2007-08 than in 2004-05.
This settlement ensures a more efficient core Cabinet Office, with plans for annual efficiencies of 3%, equivalent to £25 million by 2007-08 on an 2004-05 baseline. These savings will be reallocated to areas of high priority within the Cabinet Office, including civil contingencies policy and crisis management.
In addition to implementing their proposals to the Lyons Review, the core Cabinet Office will develop an estates rationalisation strategy with the aim of streamlining their land and buildings asset base.

In receiving this settlement, the Minister for the Cabinet Office, Douglas Alexander said:

" This is a positive settlement, which will enable us to continue to make government more effective by providing a strong centre. We are focusing our activity on the effective co-ordination of policy and operations across government, on working with departments and the wider public sector to improve the delivery of public services and on promoting standards that ensure good governance. A key outcome has been securing a doubling of the contribution to local authorities for resilience to £40m per year from 2005-06."

Notes for editors

The Cabinet Office departmental group comprises the Cabinet Office, the Single Intelligence Account and the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the Parliamentary Commissioner, the Privy Council Office, the Central Office of Information and the National Audit Office. The budgets for the core Cabinet Office and the Single Intelligence Account are set in the Spending Review, but budgets for the other bodies within the group are set annually.
Detailed breakdowns of funding for the Security and Intelligence Agencies, making up the Single Intelligence Account are not published for security reasons.

Press Notice Annex


	£ million
	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
Cabinet Office
Resource Budget	1,862	1,887	1,986	2,037
Of which Administration Budget:
Cabinet Office (excl. SIA)	226	205	205	205
SIA	594	621	704	747
Capital Budget	220	233	248	263
Total Departmental Expenditure Limit1	1,870	1,906	2,028	2,098
Cabinet Office1	230	220	220	220
Single Intelligence Account1	1,155	1,205	1,327	1,397
Other bodies2	485	481	481	481
1 Full resource budgeting basis, net of depreciation 2 Including the House of Commons, the House of Lords, the Parliamentary Commissioner, the Privy Council Office, the Central Office of Information and the National Audit Office.

Cabinet Office Spending Review 2004 settlement

Details

Notes for editors

Press Notice Annex

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