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Department for Transport, Local Government
and the Regions
1. The Estimate for 2002-03 consists of
four requests for resources:
RfR1: Offering the opportunity of a decent
home, promoting sustainable economic development through integrated
regional and local action and improving health and safety.
RfR2: Promoting modern, integrated and safe
transport and providing customer-focused regulation.
RfR3: Promoting a system of elected government
responding to the needs of local communities.
RfR4: Providing for the administration of
the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
and the Health and Safety Commission in meeting their objectives.
2. Details of programmes covered by all
four Requests for Resources and the Department's aim and 9 objectives
can be found in Chapter 1 of the Department for Transport, Local
Government and the Regions Annual Report 2002 (DAR) Cm 5405.
3. Detailed analysis of appropriations-in-aid
and Consolidated Fund Extra Receipts can be found in Tables I
and II respectively that accompany this Estimate.
RfR1: Offering the opportunity of a decent
home, promoting sustainable economic development through integrated
regional and local action and improving health and safety
5. Further information is also provided
in Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Supplementary Budget Information
booklet (CM 5510) and in Appendix A of the DAR.
RfR2: Promoting modern, integrated and
safe transport and providing customer-focused regulation
6. Chapter 3 and 10 of the DAR cover the
development of an integrated transport system across Great Britain,
and programmes contributing to improved transport safety (sections
A to AR). Funding is transferred to the Scottish Executive to
make payments in respect of the ScotRail franchise and to fund
track access grant (TAG) in Scotland.
8. Further information is also provided
in Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Supplementary Budget Information
booklet and Appendix A of the DAR.
RfR3: Promoting a system of elected government
responding to the needs of local communities
9. Request for Resources 3 provides for
the costs of Exchequer grants, contributions, non-domestic rates
(NDR) and other payments made by the Department for Transport,
Local Government and the Regions to local authorities and other
bodies.
10. Chapter 8 of the DAR sets out the activities
covered by RfR3. These include: payments in respect of rating
and banding work by the Valuation Office Agency, and the costs
of valuation tribunals (sections A and I); payments to the Audit
Commission in respect of the Best Value Inspectorate and payments
in connection with costs of intervention action in local authorities
(section B); local government research and publicity programmes
plus Electoral Law (section C); the costs of London governance
(sections D and G); payments of revenue support grants (RSG) to
receiving authorities in England, specified bodies and the Commission
for Local Administration in England (section E); payments of non-domestic
rates (NDR) to receiving authorities in England (sections F and
J); other grants and payments (sections H and K); and payments
to non-departmental public bodies (section L).
11. Further information is also provided
in Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Supplementary Budget Information
booklet (CM 5510) and Appendix A of the DAR.
RfR4: Providing for the administration
of the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
and the Health and Safety Commission in meeting their objectives
12. Request for Resources 4 covers the administrative
costs of the Department. Chapter 2 of the DAR 2002 gives details
for sections A, D, E, G and J. Further information is provided
in figure 2D of Chapter 2 and Table 2B of the DAR.
14. Further information is also provided
in Tables 1, 2, 3 and 4 of the Supplementary Budget Information
booklet (CM 5510) and Appendix A of the DAR.
Non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs)
15. All the requests for resources include
provision for payments of grant-in-aid to NDPBs. Most NDPBs are
partially funded by receipts. Further information is provided
in Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the DAR.
16. Symbols are explained in the Introduction
to this booklet.
Amounts required in the year ending 31 March 2003 for expenditure
by the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
on:
RfR1: Offering the opportunity of a decent home, promoting
sustainable economic development through integrated regional and
local action and improving health and safety
housing revenue account subsidy; homelessness and rough sleepers;
payments to the Housing Corporation; renewal of private sector
housing; home selling; rent and leasehold services; national approved
letting scheme; social housing mobility; council tenant participation;
payments to housing action trusts; Estate Action; the starter
homes initiative; the Supporting People programme; choice-based
local authority lettings; The Rent Service agency; payments to
the Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment; disabled
facilities grant; Housing Improvement Agencies; charges by Valuation
Offices in respect of Right To Buy; refurbishment of gypsy sites;
deprived neighbourhoods, including the New Deal for Communities
programmes; payments to the Urban Regeneration Agency; payments
to the Department of Trade and Industry for regional development
agencies and the London Development Agency; Groundwork; payments
made as agency for the European Union, including those for ports
and railways in Wales; exchange rate losses and other losses relating
to European regional development fund projects; coalfields regeneration;
planning, including minerals programmes; planning-aid; the Planning
Inspectorate; fire services, payments and loans to the Fire Service
College (trading fund); fire service superannuation; payments
to Ordnance Survey (trading fund); regional chambers; compensation
for sufferers, or their dependants, of certain dust-related diseases;
payments for the Mersey Basin Campaign; payments in respect of
the Commonwealth Games at Manchester; Golden Jubilee medals for
emergency services personnel; minor grants and payments in support
of housing, regeneration, building regulation, fire initiatives
research, development, surveys, monitoring, statistics, advice
and consultancies; publicity, promotion and publications; special
payments; administration; Special Grants Programme support to
voluntary bodies; subscriptions and contributions to international
organisations; and associated non-cash items.
RfR2: Promoting modern, integrated and safe transport
and providing customer-focused regulation
ports and shipping services; the National Ports Council Pension
and Compensation Schemes; water freight grants; the Maritime and
Coastguard Agency; civil and international aviation services;
assistance to airlines to compensate for losses arising from the
terrorist attacks on 11 September 2001 in the United States of
America; support for and loans to National Air Traffic Services;
the Highways Agency; payments to private consortia for design,
build, finance and operate schemes; transport grants to local
authorities, including the Greater London Authority; payments
to local authorities for the maintenance of de-trunked roads and
promotion, publicity and publications in support of the Highways
Agency operations; the operation of the Dartford River crossing;
rebates of fuel duty to bus operators; support for the haulage
industry; support to nationalised transport industries; Powershift
and cleaner vehicles programmes; royal travel; transport security;
the Commission for Integrated Transport; trans-European network
funds; support for other minor transport services; driver and
vehicle licensing and registration and the collection of revenue;
compensation and pensions costs relating to pre-DVLC local authority
driver and vehicle licensing staff; the development and operation
of systems associated with registration and licensing; the provision
by DVLA of anonymised data and other services; the Vehicle Certification
Agency; grants and loans to the Vehicle Inspectorate and Driving
Standards Agency (trading funds); vehicle and traffic enforcement;
speed and red light camera enforcement; grants to Railtrack, British
Rail and London Underground; payments and loans under section
63 of the Railways Act 1993 to Railtrack plc (in administration);
grants to the Strategic Rail Authority; the Channel Tunnel Rail
Link; National Freight Company travel concessions; railway industry
and National Freight Company pensions funds; research, development,
statistics, censuses and surveys, safety and mobility, publicity,
promotion and advice and publications, monitoring, consultancies;
selling into wider markets, including export opportunities; subscriptions
and contributions to international organisations; compensation;
special payments; administration; and associated non-cash items.
RfR3: Promoting a system of elected government responding
to the needs of local communities
payments to the Valuation Office Agency for rating and valuation
services; the expenses of valuation tribunals; payments to the
Audit Commission for work in connection with best value inspection;
revenue support grant and redistributed non-domestic rates to
receiving authorities in England; repayments of excess contributions
made by local authorities in respect of non-domestic rates in
2001-02 and previous years; preparation for the Greater London
Authority and related bodies; Greater London Authority (GLA) General
grant; intervention action in local authorities; local Public
Sector Agreement (PSA) performance fund payments; special grants
paid under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988;
grants to beacon councils; emergency financial assistance to local
authorities; payments to bodies specified by the Secretary of
State under action 78 of the Local Government Finance Act 1988,
as amended and to the Commission for Local Administration in England;
mapping revised administrative and electoral boundaries following
Parish and Electoral Commission reviews; grant-in-aid to the Standards
Board for England; payments to the Parliamentary Boundary Commissions;
electoral functions in the United Kingdom; payments in respect
of the capital element of contracts let under the private finance
initiative; research, development, surveys, monitoring, statistics,
advice and consultancies; publicity, promotion and publications;
specal payments; and associated non-cash items.
RfR4: Providing for the administration of the Department
for Transport, Local Government and the Regions and the Health
and Safety Commission in meeting their objectives
the Health and Safety Commission (HSC); grants paid by HSC
to small businesses; the residual functions of Property Services
Agency (PSA) services; residual payments concerning the privatisation
of the Building Research Establishment; loans to the Queen Elizabeth
II Conference Centre executive agency (trading fund); other government
departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies; the
Neightbourhood Renewal Unit; the Teenage Pregnancy Unit; the administration
and operation of the department; the purchase, acquisition, hire,
lease and rent of land, buildings, plant, equipment, machinery,
vehicles and capital assets; research; special payments; and associated
non-cash items.
The Department for Transport, Local Government and the
Regions will account for this Estimate.
In addition to appropriations in aid the following income
relates to the Department and is payable to the Consolidated Fund
(cash receipts being shown in italics):—
1. The Treasury has appointed the Permanent Head of the
Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions as
Accounting Officer of the Department with responsibility for preparing
the Department's accounts and for transmitting them to the Comptroller
and Auditor General.
2. In addition, the Treasury has appointed additional
Accounting Officers to be accountable for those parts of the Department's
accounts relating to specific requests for resources and the associated
assets, liabilities and cash flows. These appointments do not
detract from the Head of Department's overall responsibility as
Accounting Officer for the Department's Estimate.
3. The allocation of Accounting Officer responsibilities
in the Department for Transport, Local Government and the Regions
is as follows:
4. The responsibilities of the accounting officers, including
responsibility for the propriety and regularity of the public
finances for which the accounting officers are answerable, for
keeping proper records and for safeguarding the Department's assets,
are set out in the Accounting Officers' Memorandum, issued by
the Treasury and published in Government Accounting.
RfR1: research and administrative services, fee paying
enquiries, dissemination and sales of information, royalties,
the loan and hire of equipment, seminars, conferences and publications
(in print and non-print media); sponsorship, including contributions
from co-sponsors towards the cost of research and surveys; other
government departments, agencies and non-departmental public bodies;
receipts from the European Union; adjustments to commuted loan
charges or residual loan charge grants; donations; receipts from
the Housing Corporation; charges for services provided by leasehold
valuation tribunals and other receipts by Rent Assessment Panels;
recovered renovation or disabled facilities grants; recovered
derelict land and other regeneration grants; charges made by the
Planning Inspectorate executive agency in England and for services
in Wales; inspections by HM Fire Service Inspectorate; contributions
by employees towards fire-fighters' pensions; fire service superannuation
transfer values received for local authorities; and repayments
of deemed and voted loans made to the Fire Service College.
RfR2: research, statistical and administrative services,
fee paying enquiries, dissemination and sales of information,
royalties, the loan and hire of equipment, seminars, conferences
and publications (in print and non-print media); sponsorship,
including contributions from co-sponsors towards the cost of research
and surveys; other government departments, agencies and non-departmental
public bodies; receipts from the European Union; legal claims,
including extra contractual claims for defective work, awards
of court costs and out of court settlements; receipts for the
use of accommodation; rental income and receipts from property
and land; the disposal of land, buildings, plant, equipment, machinery,
vehicles and capital assets; fees for driving assessments; driver
licence and vehicle fees; fees from duplicate licences; operator
licence enforcement receipts; speed and red light camera fixed
penalty receipts; fees for the sale, transfer, retention and extension
of cherished registration marks; fines from wheel clamping; administration
receipts arising from the operation of driver and vehicle licensing;
charges for vehicle and component testing; recoveries from local
authorities in respect of public inquiries into highway orders;
the sale of land on completion or abandonment of highway schemes;
receipts from Dartford River Crossing Ltd; receipts from claims
for damage to motorways and trunk roads; contributions from developers
to transport schemes; recoveries of costs of civil aviation services;
the sale of civil aviation items; repayments of loans or other
payments made to National Air Traffic Services; repayments of
loans or other payments made under section 63 of the Railways
Act 1993 to Railtrack plc (in administration); receipts from Strategic
Rail Authority; the Channel Tunnel Rail Link; fees and receipts
from the survey of ships, Port State Control inspections, examinations
and the certification of seafarers; recoveries in respect of the
International Maritime Organisation building; the Mersey Conservancy;
shipping services; ports and associated pension schemes; Eurocontrol;
subsidy provided under the New Deal—Welfare to Work; and
repayments of deemed and voted loans made to the Vehicle Inspectorate
and the Driving Standards Agency.
RfR3: sponsorship, including contributions from co-sponsors
towards the cost of research and publicity; the Home Office; repayments
by employees of valuation tribunals of loans advanced to purchase
cars; rental income and receipts from accommodation leased from
or shared with valuation tribunal offices; receipts relating to
the electoral functions of the Boundary Commission; and fines
passed on by the Lord Chancellor's Department.
RfR4: research and administrative services, fee paying
enquiries, dissemination and sales of information, royalties,
the loan and hire of equipment, seminars, conferences and publcations
(in print and non-print media); other government departments,
agencies and non-departmental public bodies; the disposal of land,
buildings, plant, equipment, machinery, vehicles and capital assets;
recoveries of seconded staff salaries; receipts for the use of
accommodation; rental income and receipts from property and land;
sponsorship, including contributions from co-sponsors towards
the cost of research and surveys; donations; legal claims, including
extra contractual claims for defective work, awards of court costs
and out of court settlements; in respect of the Health and Safety
Commission fees and charges levied by the Health and Safety Commission
(HSC); research and administrative services, testing (including
EECS), fee paying enquiries, dissemination of information, royalties,
the loan and hire of equipment, seminars, patent rights, conferences
and publications (in print and non-print media) provided by the
HSC; payments from other government departments, agencies, non-departmental
public bodies and overseas governments to the HSC; sales of land
and buildings, water, stores, plant, equipment, machinery and
vehicles of the HSC; recoveries of seconded staff salaries of
the HSC; receipts for the use of HSC accommodation; rental income
and receipts from HSC property and land; sponsorship, including
contributions from co-sponsors towrds the costs of research and
surveys carried out by the HSC; recoveries by the HSC from the
European Union in respect of travelling expenses and subsistence;
allowances incurred by HSC staff on European Union businesses;
contributions and recoveries from European Union of costs of HSC
research and projects; legal claims of the HSC, inlcuding awards
of court costs and out of court settlements; refunds of advance
of salaries of HSC staff; repayment of loans made by the HSC,
including interest on the loans; residual items from the sale
of the Building Research Establishment; and the sale of Property
Services Agency businesses.
Treatment of Sale of Mark income
The Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 1994, supplemented
by the Sale of Marks Regulations 1995, empowered the Driver and
Vehicle Licensing Agency to charge for the sale of previously
unissued registration marks, for the transfer of cherished registration
marks and for the assignment of cherished marks to the vehicles.
HM Treasury directed in 1999-2000 that this income
should be classified as taxation for the purposes of the National
Accounts. But, as in previous years, the Agency is entitled to
cover the costs to the Agency of carrying out these activities
and this income is shown separately in the operating cost statement.
The balance of income (i.e. the taxation element) from these activities
is surrendered to the Consolidated Fund. In previous years the
taxation income was excluded from the operating cost statement
and shown separately in a note to the accounts. For 2001-02 Treasury
has agreed, however, that the taxation income can be included
in the operating cost statement. The 2000-01 accounts have been
restated to reflect this change in accounting policy.
RfR1: The resource provision sought for 2002-03 is
8% (£796 million) lower than the final resource provision
for 2001-02.
RfR2: The provision sought for 2002-03 is 1% (£74
million) higher than the final resource provision for 2001-02.
RfR3: The provision sought for 2002-03 is 1% (£296
million) higher than the final resource provision for 2001-02.
RfR4: The provision sought for 2002-03 is 8% (£95
million) lower than the final resource provision for 2001-02.
RfR2—promoting modern, integrated and safe
transport and providing customer-focused regulation
The gifts delegations associated with this Request
for Resources are as follows:—
Gifts by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to
visiting dignitaries (primarily from European Union member states),
not exceeding a total of £500 in any one year;
Gifts by the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency of
obsolete equipment/furniture to charities, not exceeding a total
of £1,000 in any one year;
A total donation of £1,000 by the Driver and
Vehicle Licensing Agency to charity through the local office of
the year scheme; and
A total donation of £500 a year by the Driver
and Vehicle Licensing Agency to the West Wales Association of
Communication Centres.
RfR4—providing for the administration of
the DTLR and the Health and Safety Commission in meeting their
objectives
Gifts presented by Ministers on official delegations;
and
Prizes totalling up to £100 for designs for a
departmental Christmas card.
Cash, which may be retained to offset expenditure,
is £507.6 million in 2002-03.
RfR1: offering the opportunity of a decent home,
promoting sustainable economic development through integrated
regional and local action, and improving health and safety
There were several contingent liabilities outstanding
at 31 March 2001, where any costs arising would be met from this
request for resources are as follows:—
RfR2: promoting modern, integrated and safe transport
and providing customer-focused regulation
The contingent liabilities outstanding at 31 March
2001, where any costs arising would be met from this request for
resources are as follows:—
Other Liabilities to note (DVLA related)
Provision for Liabilities and Charges
RfR4: Providing for the administration of the DTLR
and the Health and Safety Commission in meeting their objectives.
The non-statutory contingent liabilities outstanding
at 31 March 2002, where any costs arising would be met from this
Request for Resources are as follows:
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