Central Government Supply Estimates 2019-20 Main Supply Estimates May 2019 HC 2154 Central Government Supply Estimates 2019-20 Main Supply Estimates for the year ending 31 March 2020 Presented to the House of Commons by Command of Her Majesty Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed on 9 May 2019 HC 2154 © Crown copyright 2019 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/ version/3/ or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or e-mail: [email protected]. Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. Any enquiries regarding this publication should be sent to us at [email protected] You can download this publication from www.gov.uk/government/publications ISBN 978-1-5286-1281-4 PU2262 CCS0519167336 05/19 Printed on paper containing 75% recycled fibre content minimu Printed in the UK by the APS Group on behalf of the Controller of Her Majesty’s Stationery Office Contents Page Section 1 Introduction 3 Section 2 Format of Supply Estimates 7 Section 3 Parliamentary procedure 11 Section 4 The rules on the treatment of income in Supply Estimates 15 Section 5 Summary of Supply Estimates 19 Section 6 Individual Main Estimates 41 Ministry of Defence 43 Security and Intelligence Agencies 61 Home Offce 71 National Crime Agency 87 Foreign and Commonwealth Offce 99 Department for International Development 113 Department of Health and Social Care 125 Department for Work and Pensions 143 Department for Education 163 Offce for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills 181 Offce of Qualifcations and Examinations Regulation 191 Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy 201 Department for Transport 229 Department for Exiting the European Union 247 Department for International Trade 257 Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport 269 Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government 289 Ministry of Justice 305 Crown Prosecution Service 321 Serious Fraud Offce 331 HM Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor 341 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs 351 HM Revenue and Customs 369 HM Treasury 379 Cabinet Offce 397 Scotland Offce and Offce of the Advocate General 415 Northern Ireland Offce 425 Wales Offce 435 National Savings and Investments 445 Charity Commission 455 Competition and Markets Authority 465 The Statistics Board 475 Food Standards Agency 485 The National Archives 495 United Kingdom Supreme Court 505 Government Actuary’s Department 515 1 Main Estimates, 2019-20 Offce of Gas and Electricity Markets 523 Offce of Rail and Road 531 Water Services Regulation Authority 541 Export Credits Guarantee Department 551 Offce of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and the Health Service Commissioner for England 561 House of Lords 571 House of Commons: Members 581 Crown Estate Offce 591 Armed Forces Pension and Compensation Schemes 599 Department for International Development: Overseas Superannuation 609 National Health Service Pension Scheme 621 Teachers’ Pension Scheme (England and Wales) 629 UK Atomic Energy Authority Pension Schemes 639 Ministry of Justice: Judicial Pensions Scheme 647 Cabinet Offce: Civil Superannuation 657 Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme 667 Table 1 Summary of Supply provision sought, current year and comparison with previous years 4 Table 2 Supply Estimates by department 20 Table 3 Resource Departmental Expenditure Limits 2019-20 36 Table 4 Administration Budgets 2019-20 38 Table 5 Capital Departmental Expenditure Limits 2019-20 39 TREASURY CHAMBERS MEL STRIDE 9 May 2019 2 Main Estimates, 2019-20 Section 1. Introduction 1. Supply Estimates are the means by which the Government seeks authority from Parliament for its own spending each year. The Main Estimates start this process and are presented to Parliament by the Treasury at around the start of the financial yea to which they relate. 2. The format of Supply Estimates is described in detail in Section 2; Section 3 describes the way in which Parliament considers the Supply Estimates; Section 4 summarises the rules on the treatment of income in Estimates; and Section 5 consists of individual departmental Estimates themselves. The main spending aggregates 3. The present basis for planning and controlling public expenditure was announced in the Economic and Fiscal Strategy Report 1998, Stability and Investment in the Long Term (Cm 3978) and the Comprehensive Spending Review, Modern Public Services for Britain: Investing in Reform (Cm 4011) and took effect from 1999-2000. 4. Total Managed Expenditure (TME) includes resource and capital Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) for which plans were set in the Spending Review 2015 and Annually Managed Expenditure (AME). AME is subject to annual review as part of the Budget process. 5. The main elements of DEL and AME that are not funded through the Supply Estimates are central government expenditure funded directly from other sources, e.g. the National Insurance Fund. 2019-20 Main Supply Estimates 6. The total resource and capital expenditure, for which authority is sought in the 2019-20 Main Estimates is £ 629.8 billion. This spending is broadly consistent with the Government’s plans for public expenditure as a whole. Further information is contained in individual departmental Annual Reports and Accounts to be published in the summer. 7. Table 1 below shows the total voted Supply provision sought for 2019-20 for Estimates, compared to the provision for 2018-19 and the outturn for 2017-18. 8. Table 2 in Section 5 shows: the voted net resource and capital requirement within each of the budgetary boundaries; and the net cash requirements sought for each Estimate in 2019-20; the total provision for 2018-19; and the outturn for 2017-18. 3 Main Estimates, 2019-20 Table 1 Summary of Supply provision sought, current year and comparison with previous years £ million 2019-20 †† 2018-19 † 2017-18 † Plans Provisions Outturn Total Resource and Capital Departmental Expenditure Limit ††† 353,055 339,081 317,798 Total Resource and Capital Annually Managed Expenditure 211,980 172,563 293,097 Total Net Budget 565,035 511,644 610,895 Total Non-Budget Expenditure 64,751 63,784 58,982 Total Resource and Capital in Estimates 629,787 575,428 669,877 Resource to cash adjustments -110,857 -62,580 -211,895 Total Net cash requirement 518,929 512,848 457,982 † Figures for 2017-18 outturn and 2018-19 provision are adjusted for transfer, classification and machinery of government changes to reflect the 2019-20 Estimate structure. †† Figures for the independent entities are provisional. See their published Estimates to see the final provision. ††† Figures include grants paid to Academies which are voted by Parliament. See paragraph 2 of DFE's Estimate for further details. 9. The 2019-20 Main Estimates are presented in six volumes. This volume covers central government departments. Separate booklets are being presented to Parliament by the House of Commons: Administration, the National Audit Office the Electoral Commission, the Local Government Boundary Commission for England, and the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority. In-year controls 10. Parliament votes limits on: • the net resource DEL requirement • the net capital DEL requirement • the net resource AME requirement • the net capital AME requirement • the net non-budget requirement • the net cash requirement for the Estimate as a whole 11. A breach of any of these voted limits (not all DEL or AME spending is voted) would result in an Excess Vote. Section 3 on Parliamentary procedure provides more details on Excess Votes. Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) 12. Departments are expected to manage their resource and capital budgets within DEL. Failure to live within announced plans would be treated as a breach (as well as an Excess Vote) requiring investigation into its cause, an examination of the financia 4 Main Estimates, 2019-20 procedures of the department concerned and, where appropriate, a reduction in the corresponding DEL in future year(s). 13. Where there is an agreed change to a department’s DEL, it must be announced to Parliament before the end of the financial yea . This is usually done through the presentation of a Supplementary Estimate, which clearly identifies both vote and non-voted DEL totals. Where the department has a change to DEL, or the administration budget limit (see below), but doesn’t require a Supplementary Estimate (perhaps because all the movements are non-voted) Parliament should be notified through a Written Ministerial Statement before the end of the financial ye r. 14. Table 3 in Section 5 shows the control limits for all expenditure (voted and non- voted) within resource DEL for 2019-20 for the Main Estimates. Administration budgets 15. Administration budgets are set for most civil service departments and their executive agencies and arm’s length bodies (ALBs), unless specific exemptions have bee agreed. Administration budgets are a subset of resource DEL. These budgets help drive economy and efficiency in the running of government itsel . They cover the costs of all central government administration other than the costs of direct frontline service provision. Departments may, with Treasury approval, offset negative DEL income relating to their administrative activities against their administration budgets. 16. Administration budgets for 2019-20 for the Main Estimates are set out in Table 4 in Section 5. All changes require the specific approval of the Treasury. Exceeding the administration budget would constitute a breach regardless of the position on overall resource DEL and would be subject to investigation, report and possible penalty similar to that described above for breaches of overall resource DEL. In addition, and although not a separate voted limit, any breach of the administration budget would also result in an Excess Vote.