Dan Norris (Labour)

The change in the resource element of the DEL of £11,873,000 arises from: (i) a transfer of £30,000,000 programme from resource to capital for the Environment Agency; (ii) a £30,000,000 increase to programme following an agreement with HM Treasury to bring forward part of next year’s ring-fenced disallowance provision to cover a Rural Payments Agency (RPA) disallowance issue that has materialised this year; (iii) a transfer of £827,000 programme to the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development for Northern Ireland for transmissible spongiform encephalopathy responsibility; (iv) a transfer of £12,500,000 programme from the Department of Energy and Climate Change, returning funding DEFRA previously provided for the Carbon Capture and Storage Front-End Engineering Design (FEED) studies; and (v) a transfer of £200,000 administration from the Cabinet Office for the Office of Parliamentary Counsel.

The change in the capital element of the DEL of £29,735,000 arises from: (i) a transfer of £30,000,000 from resource to capital for the Environment Agency; and (ii) a transfer of £265,000 to the Department of Energy and Climate Change for anaerobic digestion of manure and food waste demonstration projects.

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