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Annex A

Statistical Annex Introduction and summary

A1 Annex:

  • sets out new public expenditure plans for the years 2001-02 to 2003-04 for Total Managed Expenditure, Departmental Expenditure Limits and Annually Managed Expenditure, alongside comparable data for the 1999-2000 outturn and the current year 2000-01;
  • shows individual Departmental Expenditure Limits in nominal and real terms and split between resource and capital budgets;
  • sets out, for the first time, the full resource budget using new resource accounting and budgeting information reconciled to national accounts public sector current expenditure, and the capital budget reconciled to public sector net investment;
  • presents a reconciliation between departmental cash and resource budgets for the years when cash budgets remain (1999-2000 to 2001-02);
  • presents a reconciliation from Budget 2000 plans for DEL by department from 1999-2000 to 2001-2002; and
  • presents historical series for the key public spending aggregates.

The framework

A2 The framework for planning and controlling spending remains as set out in the Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report of June 1998.

A3 Departments are given firm three year spending limits called Departmental Expenditure Limits (DELs) within which they can prioritise resources and plan ahead. In accordance with the fiscal rules, a clear distinction is made between current (now 'resource' spending under resource budgeting) and capital spending, which are budgeted for separately to ensure worthwhile capital investment is not crowded out by short-term pressures.

A4 Spending that cannot reasonably be subject to firm multi-year limits is included in Annually Managed Expenditure (AME). The composition is set out in Table A1. It includes social security benefits, local authority self-financed expenditure, payments under the Common Agricultural Policy, net payments to EC institutions and debt interest. AME is based on cautious estimates which are updated twice yearly at the Budget and Pre-Budget Reports. DEL and AME together make up Total Managed Expenditure (TME).

Spending plans

A5 Budget 2000 set a firm fiscal envelope for 2001-02 to 2003-04 for growth in current and current spending. Total Managed Expenditure is as announced in Budget 2000 except for the allowance for the underspend in 1999-2000. The Budget allowed for a £1 billion DEL underspend to be carried forward into 2000-01. Final outturn numbers for 1999-2000 now show a £3 billion underspend in DEL and a total underspend of £4.5 billion. £1.5 billion of the underspend in DEL will be carried forward, £750 million into 2000-01 and £750 million into 2001-02. Table A1 sets out the path for TME, DEL and AME and its components over the period.

A6 Within TME, total DEL by department is shown in nominal terms in Table A2, split into resource and capital budgets in Table A3 and shown in real terms in Table A4. The move to resource budgeting allows the measurement of the total costs of departmental activities in each year, including the annual cost of owning the assets used to deliver public services. This is shown in Table A5 reconciled to the national accounts measure of public sector current expenditure. New capital spending continues to be controlled separately. In Table A6 the capital budget is reconciled to the national accounts measure of public sector net investment. Table A7 provides a reconciliation between resource and cash budgets for the three years where cash budgets currently exist.

A7 A number of transfers between budgets have been made in this Review. These are:

  • an £800 million and £900 million transfer in 2002-03 and 2003-04 from social security benefits in AME to the Department of Health and Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland budgets to reflect the new arrangements for long-term care services;
  • some £250 million a year has moved from DEL to the Common Agricultural Policy payments line in AME to reflect the movement of the Intervention Board's Over Thirty Months Scheme for cattle into AME; and
  • non self-financing public corporations capital expenditure now scores in departmental budgets in DEL not in accounting adjustments in AME - this has a net effect of increasing DEL by £0.5 billion (see Table A7).

A8 The AME forecast in table A1 has been updated since the Budget where relevant to show the outturn level for 1999-2000, policy changes and reclassifications in the Spending Review. Where they are relevant to the spending aggregates, National Audit Office (NAO) audited assumptions on unemployment, spend to save and market expectations of interest rates have been updated to incorporate the latest information available. The effect of these changes is set out in Table 2.2 in Chapter 2. The move to accruals budgeting better attributes social security benefit spending to the years it applies. This increases forecasts by some £300 million a year until 2001-02 compared to cash. The self-financing public corporations line in AME now records the capital expenditure of these bodies, previously in accounting adjustments in AME, rather than their external finance. It is therefore not comparable with the cash line.

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Table A1: Total Managed Expenditure

£ billion
1999-002000-012001-022002-032003-04
Departmental Expenditure Limits:
Resource Budget158.5172.8185.1197.3209.1
Capital Budget18.222.427.031.936.6
Total Departmental Expenditure Limits176.8195.2212.1229.3245.7
Annually Managed Expenditure
Departmental AME:
Social security benefits97.199.5104.4107.3111.9
Housing Revenue Account subsidies3.23.33.33.23.1
Common Agricultural Policy2.72.72.92.82.8
Export Credits Guarantee Department0.90.80.40.20.0
Self-financing public corporations capital spending 0.91.61.21.21.3
Net public service pensions5.15.75.55.76.0
National Lottery1.92.32.02.12.1
Other programme expenditure-0.10.00.00.00.0
Non-cash items:
Depreciation7.37.37.98.38.7
Cost of capital charges12.713.013.213.513.8
Provisions and other charges0.3-0.4-0.30.00.2
Total departmental AME (incl. non-cash items)132.0135.8140.5140.5149.9
Other AME:
Net payments to EC institutions2.92.72.52.62.9
Locally financed expenditure17.218.018.919.820.6
CG debt interest 25.627.026.125.324.7
Accounting and other adjustments1-13.82-8.6-8.11-7.8-7.11
Total other AME31.9239.139.3139.941.11
AME margin 1.51.02.03.0
Annually Managed Expenditure163.9176.4180.8186.2193.9
Total Managed Expenditure340.7371.6392.9415.4439.6
of which:
Current expenditure323.5349.4366.8384.5404.3
Net investment2.67.210.615.019.0
Depreciation14.615.015.415.916.3
1. Includes adjustments to deduct non-cash items in DEL and departmental AME which do not score in TME
2. Includes a reconciliation adjustment to national accounts estimate of TME.

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Table A2: Departmental Expenditure Limits

£ billion
1999-002000-012001-022002-032003-04
Departmental Expenditure Limits:
Education and Employment 15.518.921.323.525.7
Health40.945.349.554.459
of which: NHS40.244.548.252.356.7
Environment, Transport and Regions9.810.713.25.517.9
Local Government34.235.436.839.241.9
Home Office7.58.29.610.310.6
Legal Departments2.833.13.23.2
Defence 121.92323.624.225
Foreign and Commonwealth Office1.21.11.21.31.3
International Development2.52.83.13.33.6
Trade and Industry33.84.64.34.3
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food1.111.31.31.4
Culture, Media and Sport111.11.21.2
Department of Social Security3.23.23.94.34.2
Scotland13.91516.217.418.4
Wales7.17.88.49.19.8
Northern Ireland Executive4.95.35.766.3
Northern Ireland Office111.11.11
Chancellor's Departments3.53.74.14.34.3
Cabinet Office1.41.41.51.51.5
Employment Opportunities Fund 20.50.90.90.91.4
Invest to Save Budget 0.10.10.1
Capital Modernisation Fund 0.10.40.91.2
Policy Innovation Fund 0.10.10.1
Reserve 2.7 31.522.5
Total Departmental Expenditure Limits176.8195.2212.1 4229.3245.7
Education Spending in UK40.645.849.553.457.7
1. Figures remain provisional in 1999-2000 and 2000-01.
2. Formerly Welfare to Work
3. Includes carry forward of underspend of £0.75 billion from 1999-2000
4. Includes previously unallocated Budget 2000 addition of £5.9 billion and a further 2000 Spending Review additional allocation of £3 billion - see Table 2.3 in Chapter 2.

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Table A3: Departmental Expenditure Limits - Resource and Capital Budgets

£ billion
1999-002000-012001-022002-032003-04
Resource Budget:
Education and Employment 14.216.6 18.8 20.4 21.8
Health 40 43.6 46.9 51.2 55.7
of which: NHS 39.4 42.9 45.7 49.1 53.5
Environment, Transport and Regions3.94.35.15.65.7
Local Government33.935.336.73941.5
Home Office77.68.79.39.8
Legal Departments2.72.93.13.13.1
Defence116.917.818.118.518.7
Foreign and Commonwealth Office111.11.11.1
International Development2.22.52.72.93.1
Trade and Industry2.83.33.93.53.2
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food10.91.11.11.1
Culture, Media and Sport0.90.911.11.2
Department of Social Security3.23.23.84.14.1
Scotland1212.713.514.415.2
Wales6.36.97.488.5
Northern Ireland Executive4.24.54.855.2
Northern Ireland Office1111.11
Chancellor's Departments3.43.83.94.14.1
Cabinet Office1.11.21.31.31.4
Employment Opportunities Fund 20.50.90.90.81.4
Invest to Save Budget 0.10.10.1
Capital Modernisation Fund
Policy Innovation Fund 000
Reserve 21.21.62
Total Resource Budget DEL158.5172.8185.1197.3209.1
Capital Budget :
Education and Employment1.22.32.533.8
Health0.91.72.63.23.3
of which: NHS0.91.62.53.23.2
Environment, Transport and Regions5.86.48.19.912.2
Local Government0.300.10.30.3
Home Office0.50.60.910.9
Legal Departments0.10.10.10.10.1
Defence155.25.55.76.2
Foreign and Commonwealth Office0.10.10.10.20.2
International Development0.30.30.40.40.4
Trade and Industry0.20.50.70.81
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food0.10.20.20.20.2
Culture, Media and Sport0.10.10.10.10.1
Department of Social Security000.10.10
Scotland1.82.32.733.2
Wales0.90.811.21.3
Northern Ireland Executive0.70.80.911.1
Northern Ireland Office000.10.10
Chancellor's Departments0.1-0.10.20.20.2
Cabinet Office0.20.20.20.20.2
Employment Opportunities Fund 2 000
Invest to Save Budget 000
Capital Modernisation Fund 0.10.40.91.2
Policy Innovation Fund Reserve 0.70.30.40.5
Total Capital Budget DEL18.222.42731.936.6
Total Departmental Expenditure Limits176.8195.2212.1229.3245.7
1. Provisional figures for 1999-2000 to 2000-01.
2. Formerly Welfare to Work

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Table A4: Departmental Expenditure Limits in real terms

£ billion, 1999-2000 prices
1999-002000-01 2001-022002-032003-04
Departmental Expenditure Limits:
Education and Employment 15.4 18.5 20.3 21.9 23.3
Health 40.9 44.3 47.2 50.7 53.6
of which: NHS 40.2 43.5 46 48.7 51.5
Environment, Transport and Regions9.810.512.614.416.2
Local government34.234.635.136.538
Home Office7.589.29.69.6
Legal Departments2.82.9332.9
Defence21.922.522.522.522.7
Foreign and Commonwealth Office1.21.11.11.21.2
International Development2.52.733.13.2
Trade and Industry33.74.443.9
Agriculture, Fisheries and Food1.111.21.21.2
Culture, Media and Sport111.11.11.1
Department of Social Security3.23.23.743.8
Scotland13.914.715.516.216.7
Wales7.17.68.18.58.9
Northern Ireland Executive4.95.25.45.65.7
Northern Ireland Office1111.10.9
Chancellor's Departments3.53.73.943.9
Cabinet Office1.41.31.41.41.4
Employment Opportunities Fund10.50.90.80.81.2
Invest to Save Budget 0.10.10.1
Capital Modernisation Fund 0.10.40.81.1
Policy Innovation Fund 000
Reserve 2.6 21.41.92.3
Total Departmental Expenditure Limits176.8190.9202.4213.4223.1
1. Formerly Welfare to Work.
2. Includes carry forward of underspend of £0.75 billion from 1999-2000

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Table A5: Resource Budget and Public Sector Current Expenditure

£ billion
1999-002000-01 2001-022002-03 2003-04
Resource Budget:
in Departmental Expenditure Limits158.5 172.8 185.1197.3 209.1
of which:
Departmental DEL158170183194.8205.6
Non-departmental DEL0.52.82.12.53.4
in Departmental AME128.7132.5137.6141.6147.2
of which:
Departmental AME (excluding non-cash items)108.5112.6116.8118.9124.6
Non-cash items in Departmental AME:
Depreciation7.37.37.98.38.7
Cost of capital charges 12.7 13 13.2 13.5 13.8
Provisions and other charges0.3-0.4-0.300.2
Total Resource Budget287.2305.3322.7338.9356.3
Other current spending in AME:
Net payments to EC institutions2.92.72.52.62.9
Locally financed current expenditure16.417.318.21919.8
CG debt interest25.62726.125.324.7
AME margin (current)01.411.92.9
Accounting and other adjustments1-12.3 2-7.7-7.5-7-6.4
Classification changes to national accounts33.63.43.93.84.1
Public sector current expenditure 323.5 349.4 366.8 384.5 404.3
1. Includes adjustments to deduct non-cash items in DEL and departmental AME, which do not score in TME
2. Includes a reconciliation adjustment to national accounts estimate of TME.
3. Adjusts for classification differences between resource budgeting and national accounts

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Table A6: Capital Budget and Public Sector Net Investment

£ billion
1999-002000-012001-022002-032003-04
Capital budget:
in Departmental Expenditure Limits 18.2 22.4 2731.936.6
of which:
Departmental DEL (excl. public corporations) 14.6 18 22.9 27.231.5
Public corporations capital expenditure3.73.63.33.33.3
Non-departmental DEL00.80.71.31.8
in Departmental AME (excl. non-cash items)3.33.32.82.72.7
of which:
Departmental AME (excl. self-financed PCs)2.41.71.61.41.2
Self-financed public corporations capital expenditure0.91.61.31.31.5
Non-departmental AME
Total Capital Budget21.725.829.834.739.3
Other capital spending in AME:
Locally financed capital expenditure0.80.70.70.80.8
AME margin (capital) 0.100.10.1
Accounting and other adjustments-1.5 1-0.9-0.6-0.8-0.7
Classification changes to national accounts-3.6-3.4-3.9-3.8-4.1
Public sector gross investment17.222.326.130.935.4
less Depreciation (national accounts)14.61515.415.916.3
Public sector net investment2.6 7.310.6 1519
1 Includes a reconciliation adjustment to national accounts estimate of TME.

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Table A7: Departmental Expenditure Limits - reconciliation of cash budgets with resource budgets

£ million
1999-00 2000-01 2001-02
DEL Current budget (cash) to resource budget DEL:
DEL current budget (cash) - plans at Budget 20001 166,094176,252 1 181,752 2
Underspend on 1999-2000 plans and carry forward2 -1,904 12,503 750
Other changes since Budget 1310
DEL current budget (cash) - July 2000 164,190 177,633 182,502
Resource Budgeting changes:
Timing adjustments-60033416
Switches from current to capital budget -
Defence fighting equipment-3,622-3,267-3,457
Switches from current to capital budget - other-12-145-201
Switches from capital to resource budget135137214
Capital charges on the civil estate229244246
Public corporations scoring adjustments-326-463-281
Non-departmental public bodies - scoring adjustments508585
NHS trust adjustment-1,293-1,248-1,479
Other adjustments19822
Other budgeting changes-248-218-269
Resource budget - DEL (before Spending Review)158,522172,799177,798
Changes announced in Spending Review007,298
Resource budget - DEL (after Spending Review)158,522172,799185,096
DEL Capital Budget (cash) to Capital Budget DEL:
DEL capital budget (cash) - plans at Budget 200013,79416,45217,777
Underspend on 1999-2000 plans and carry forward-1,086500
Other changes since Budget -1310
DEL capital budget (cash) - July 200012,70816,82117,777
Budgeting changes:
Timing adjustments1334813
Switches from current to capital budget -
defence fighting equipment3,6223,2673,457
Switches from current to capital budget - other12145201
Switches from capital to resource budget-135-137-214
Public corporations - scoring adjustments2,0262,0022,217
Non-departmental public bodies - scoring adjustments-4-16
Capital budget - DEL (before Spending Review)18,24222,44523,457
Changes announced in Spending Review003,555
Capital budget - DEL (after Spending Review)18,24222,44527,012
1. Excluding carry forward of underspend announced in Budget 2000.
2. Excludes extra money for NHS announced in Budget 2000.
3. Includes carry forward announced in Budget 2000.

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Table A10: Accounting and other adjustments

£ billion
1999-002000-01 2001-022002-032003-04
Non-trading capital consumption 7.6 7.88.1 8.4 8.7
VAT refunded on general government expenditure 5.8 5.7 6 6.2 6.4
EC contributions -5.5 -5.4 -5.1 -4.7 -4.2
Income tax credits 2.8 5.3 5.7 5.9 6.1
Adjustments for public corporations3.93.83.83.73.9
Intra general government debt interest-3.3-2.8-3.3-2.9-2.9
Financial transactions in departmental budgets-1.9-2.2-1.8-1.8-1.8
Adjustments for expenditure financed by receipts0-0.1000
Other accounting adjustments-0.3-0.5-0.5-0.5-0.5
Reconciliation to national accounts-2.4
less:
Non-cash items in DEL-0.3-0.3-0.3-0.3-0.3
Non-cash items in AME-20.2-19.9-20.8-21.8-22.6
Total accounting and other adjustments-13.8 -8.6-8.1-7.8 -7.1

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