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Annex A: Expenditure tables

Table 2 – Department for Work and Pensions resource budget detail

This table provides similar information to Table 1, though in greater detail for the resource budget. It shows the expenditure for each of the client groups, indicating the activities that the Department spends its money on. The expenditure plans differentiate between the costs of administration and expenditure incurred on the various welfare programmes. The entry concerning the National Insurance Fund relates only to the Department's costs in administering the fund.

Table 2 Resource budget for the Department for Work and Pensions
£ million (1,2)
  2000 – 01 2001 – 02 2002 – 03 2003 – 04 2004 – 05 2005 – 06 2006 – 07 2007 – 08
  outturn outturn outturn outturn outturn estimated outturn plans plans
Consumption of Resources:
Children 249 251 296 249 257 398 408 402
Of which:
Children’s benefits   1 2 #        
Children’s administration (3) 249 250 294 249 257 398 408 402
Working age 36,694 38,331 39,317 40,186 42,292 42,591 41,823 41,654
Of which:
Working-age benefits (4,5) 20,991 21,414 21,686 22,610 22,052 21,297 20,261 19,207
Working-age administration (6,7) 2,989 2,287 1,856 2,029 2,309 2,257 2,057 2,062
Employment programmes (8) 1,215 1,044 1,274 1,285 1,066 1,028 992 896
Grants to local authorities 11,462 13,546 14,460 14,223 16,825 17,970 18,479 19,465
The Rent Service Executive Agency (9) 37 40 41 40 40 39 34 24
Pensioners 46,131 50,198 52,743 55,549 59,756 62,826 65,023 69,002
Of which:                
Pensioners benefits (10) 44,262 48,051 50,478 53,033 57,089 60,323 62,491 66,557
Social Fund (11,12) 1,839 1,907 1,972 2,209 2,244 2,316 2,340 2,388
Pensioners administration (13,14,15) 30 240 293 307 423 187 192 57
Disability 10,073 10,807 11,477 12,467 13,249 14,115 14,954 15,780
Of which:                
Disability administration (16,17) 12 15 3 188 186 228 241 220
Disability benefits and grants to independent bodies (18) 10,061 10,792 11,474 12,279 13,063 13,887 14,713 15,560
Corporate and shared services 115 1,414 1,997 1,632 1,737 2,074 2,088 2,160
Of which:                
Corporate and shared services: administration (19) 115 1,414 1,997 1,632 1,737 2,074 2,088 2,160
Public corporations 100 143 113 108 109 3 92 92
Of which:             168 245
Remploy Ltd (7) 100 143 113 108 109 3 92 92
National Insurance Fund 821 471 890 1,399 1,137 1,108 1,083 1,083
Of which:                
National Insurance Fund administration (20) 821 471 890 1,399 1,137 1,108 1,083 1,083
Unallocated provision             168 245
Of which:                
Departmental Unallocated Provision             38 105
Employment Development and Skills Fund (21)             40 50
Housing Benefit Reform Fund (22)             90 90
Total resource budget 94,182 101,615 106,832 111,590 118,537 123,115 125,638 130,417

Further Notes

  1. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
  2. Amounts below £0.5m are indicated by #.
  3. Increase in 2002-03 is due to funding to implement Child Support Reform.
  4. Working Age benefits include: Severe Disablement Allowance, Industrial Injuries Benefits, Income Support (under 60 years of age), Job seekers Allowance, Job Grant, Earnings Top Up, Statutory Sick Pay, Statutory Maternity Pay, Incapacity Benefit.
  5. Reduction for 2005-06 onwards is a result of the transfer of child elements of income to HM Revenue & Customs.
  6. Reduction for 2001-02 onwards is partly a result of the setting up of The Pension Service and the Disability Directorate, the costs of which were previously within the Benefits Agency.
  7. See Note 12 in Table 1.
  8. Employment Programme administration costs moved into the Working Age Administration line in 2004-05.
  9. The Rent Service transferred from ODPM in April 2004.
  10. Pensioner benefits mainly include: State Pension, Non-Contributory State Pension, Christmas Bonus, Pension Credit, TV Licences for the Over-75s and Widows Benefits.
  11. Relates to all Social Fund resource expenditure, including Winter Fuel payments. Figures include Social Fund resource expenditure for working age as well as pensioners. From 2001-02 onwards, net lending on Crisis loans and Funeral payments was included under capital expenditure.
  12. Social Fund includes Winter Fuel Payments.
  13. Includes Office of the Pensions Regulatory Authority, Pensions Compensation Board and Pensions Protection Fund.
  14. Increase from 2001-02 due to the setting up of the Pension Service, costs of which were previously within the Benefits Agency.
  15. The reduction in 2005-06 is mainly a result of funds still to be allocated from undrawn down funds and a variation in the allocated NIF receipt.
  16. Includes the Disability Rights Commission.
  17. Increase from 2003-04 relates to the setting up of the Disability Directorate costs which were previously within the Benefits Agency.
  18. Disability benefits include: Attendance Allowance, Disability Living Allowance, Disability Working Allowance, Invalid Care Allowance, Vaccine Damage. Grants to independent Bodies include grants to Independent Living and Motability.
  19. See note 6 in Table 1.
  20. See note 7 in Table 1.
  21. SR2004 measure.
  22. SR2004 measure.

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