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Office of Water Services
Introduction
1. This Estimate provides
for the funding of the Office of Water Services. The Department
is headed by the Director General of Water Services who is reponsible
for ensuring that water and sewerage companies properly carry
out their functions and can finance them. Subject to that he must
protect customers, promote economy and efficiency and facilitate
competition.
2. OFWAT is financed through
licence fees received from the water and sewerage companies and
is subject to cost controls. Further details of the expenditure
contained in RfR1 Section A of this Estimate can be found in the
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Annual Report
2002 (Cm 5422).
3. The provision of £35,000
is sought for 2002-03 it is required to cover part of the pension
costs of the former Director General of the Office of Water Services
that cannot be charged to the water industry. The provision sought
reflects the Appropriations in Aid of receipt from fees levied
by the utility regulator.
4. Symbols are explained in
the Introduction to this booklet.
Part I
| £
|
| RfR1: Regulation of the Water Industry
| 1,000 |
| Total net resource requirement | 1,000
|
| Net cash requirement | 35,000
|
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The amounts required in the year ending 31 March 2003
for expenditure by the Office of Water Services on:
RfR1: Regulation of the Water Industry
administration and operational costs and the provision
of customer representation and associated non-cash items.
The Office of Water Services will account for
this Estimate.
| Net Total
| Allocated in Vote
on Account
| Balance to
Complete/Surrender
|
| £ |
£ | £
|
| RfR1 | 1,000
| 16,000 | -15,000
|
| Net cash requirement | 35,000
| 16,000 | 19,000
|
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Part II: Resource to Cash reconciliation
| |
| £000
|
| 2002-03
provision
| 2001-02
provision
| 2000-01
outturn
|
|
| Net Total Resources |
| 1 |
| 1 |
| 1 |
| Voted Capital Items |
| | | |
| |
| Capital | 535
| | 600 |
| 98 |
|
| Less Non-operating A-in-A | —
| | — |
| — |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| | 535
| | 600
| | 98
|
| Accruals to cash adjustment |
| | | |
| |
| Cost of capital charges | -16
| | 26 |
| -13 | |
| Depreciation | -555
| | -325 |
| -297 |
|
| New provisions and adjustments to previousprovisions
| -15 | |
-15 | | -12
| |
| Other non-cash items | -14
| | -14 |
| — |
|
| Increase (+)/Decrease (-) in stock
| — | |
— | | —
| |
| Increase (+)/Decrease (-) in debtors
| — | |
— | | —
| |
| Increase (-)/Decrease (+) in creditors
| 39 | | -266
| | 400 |
|
| Use of provisions | —
| | — |
| — |
|
|
|
|
|
|
| |
| Total accruals to cash adjustments |
| -501 |
| -566 | |
104 |
| Excess cash to be CFERd |
| — |
| — |
| — |
| Net Cash Requirement |
| 35 |
| 35 |
| 203 |
|
Part III: Extra Receipts payable to the Consolidated
Fund
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):
| |
| £000
|
| 2002-03
| 2001-02
| 2000-01
|
| Income |
Receipts | Income
| Receipts | Income
| Receipts |
|
| Operating income not classified as AinA |
20 | 20
| 730 | 730
| 637 | 637
|
| Non-operating income not classified as AinA |
— | —
| — | —
| — | —
|
| Other amounts collectable on behalf of the Consolidated Fund
| — | —
| — | —
| 280 | 280
|
| Excess cash receipts to be surrendered to theConsolidated Fund
| — | —
| — | —
| — | —
|
|
| Total | 20 |
20 | 730
| 730 | 917
| 917 |
|
Forecast Operating Cost Statement
| |
| £000
|
| 2002-03
Provision
| 2001-02
Provision
| 2000-01
Outturn
|
| Net administration costs | |
| | |
| |
| Request for Resources 1 | -539
| | -299 |
| -295 |
|
| Net programme costs: |
| | | |
| |
| Request for Resources 1 | 520
| | -429
| | -341
| |
| NET OPERATING COST | -19
| | -729 |
| -636 |
|
| of which: | |
| | | |
|
| NET RESOURCE OUTTURN | 1
| | 1 |
| 1 | |
| CFERs | -20 |
| -730 |
| -637 | |
| Non-voted expenditure | —
| | — |
| — |
|
| RESOURCE BUDGET OUTTURN (1) | -19
| | -729
| | -636
| |
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| (1) See table in notes for reconciliation between Net resource outturn, Net operating cost and Resource budget outturn
|
Notes to the Main Estimate
Reconciliation of resource expenditure between Estimates, accounts
and budgets
| |
| £000
|
| 2002-03
Provision
| 2001-02
Provision
| 2000-01
Outturn
|
| Net Resource Outturn (Estimates) |
1 | |
1 | |
1 | |
Adjustments for:
Consolidated Fund Extra Receipts in the OCS
| -1 | | -730
| | -637 |
|
| Net Operating Costs (Accounts) | -19
| | -729
| | -636
| |
| Resource Budget Outturn (Budget) |
-19 | |
-729 | |
-636 | |
| of which: | |
| | | |
|
| Departmental Expenditure Limit (DEL) | -559
| | -1,029 |
| -932 |
|
| Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) | 540
| | 300 |
| 296 |
|
|
Reconciliation of capital expenditure between Estimates
and Budgets
| | | £000
|
| 2002-03
| 2001-02 | 2000-01
|
| Provision
| Provision | Provision
|
| Net Voted Capital Outturn (Estimates)
| 535 | 600
| 98 |
| Capital Budget Outturn | 535
| 600 | 98
|
| of which: | |
| |
| Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) | 535
| 600 | 98
|
| Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) | —
| — | —
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Explanation of Accounting Officer Responsibilities
1. The Treasury has appointed the Director
General Philip Fletcher 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. The responsibilities of the Accounting
Officer, including responsibility for the propriety and regularity
of the public finances for which the Accounting Officer is 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.
Analysis of Appropriations in Aid
| 2002-03
provision
| 2001-02
provision
| 2000-01
outturn
|
| Operating
| Non-operating | Operating
| Non-operating | Operating
| Non-operating |
| AinA |
AinA | AinA
| AinA | AinA
| AinA |
| |
| | |
| |
| RfR1: Regulation of the Water Industry
|
| Licence Fees | 11,880
| — | 11,900
| — | 10,915
| — |
|
| Total Appropriations in Aid | 11,880*
| — | 11,900
| — | 10,915
| — |
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| * | Amount that may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition to the net total, arising from receipts for licence fees.
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DEL and Administration Costs Limits
| 2002-03 Administration Costs Limits
| £000s |
| Gross
provision
| Income | Total
administration
costs limit
|
| Gross administration costs limits |
11,341 | —
| 11,341 |
| Memorandum item: reconciliation with net admin costs
| | | |
| Add to above | |
| |
| Net admin costs in non-cash AME |
| | — |
| Admin costs treated as resource in Estimates but as capital in Budgets (under Stage 1 of RAB)
| | | |
| Other income not netted off gross administration cost limits
| | | -11,880
|
| gives: | |
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| Total net admin costs |
| | -539
|
| of which: | |
| |
| Voted in OCS | |
| -539 |
| Non-voted administration departmental unallocated provision
| | | —
|
| 2002-03 Departmental Expenditure Limits
| | | £000s
|
| Voted
| Non-Voted | Total
|
| Resource DEL | -539
| -20 | -559
|
| Capital DEL | 535
| — | 535
|
| Total DEL | -4
| -20 | -24
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1. Capital DEL includes items treated as resource in Estimates and Accounts, but which are treated as part of Capital DEL, under stage 1 of Resource Accounting and Budgeting, as implemented in the 2000 Spending Review.
2. Excludes EU receipts included in Estimates, but excluded in Budgets.
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