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Annex A: Expenditure tables

Table 5 – Department for Work and Pensions administration costs

This table presents in more detail information concerning the administration costs of running the Department. For the current year and past years there is an analysis of administration expenditure showing paybill and other costs.

Table 5 Department for Work and Pensions’ administration costs
£ million (1)
  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
Administration expenditure
Paybill (9) 2,364 2,512 2,850 2,964 3,076 3,145    
Other 2,159 2,432 2,884 3,122 3,043 2,941    
Total administration expenditure (8) 4,523 4,944 5,734 6,086 6,119 6,086 5,948 5,909
Administration income -176 -114 -127 -137 -131 -150 -117 -115
Total administration budget 4,347 4,830 5,607 5,949 5,988 5,936 5,831 5,794
Children 248 250 293 249 256 394 408 402
Working age (2) 3,819 2,668 2,339 2,387 2,501 2,721 2,588 2,598
Pensioners (6) - 219 419 484 571 623 641 507
Disability (7) - 1 - 172 167 198 219 198
Corporate and shared services (3,5) 280 1,692 2,556 2,657 2,493 2,000 1,975 2,089
Total administration budget (4) 4,347 4,830 5,607 5,949 5,988 5,936 5,831 5,794

Notes

  1. Totals may not sum due to rounding.
  2. Working age includes the Employment Development Fund, Employment Development and Skills Fund and the Housing Benefit Reform Fund.
  3. Corporate and shared services include the Departmental Unallocated Provision.
  4. Administration costs by activity will not match the administration costs in Table 2 as the latter includes additional items outside the definition of the administration budget.
  5. See Note 6 in Table 1.
  6. See Notes 13 and 14 in Table 2.
  7. See Note 17 in Table 2.
  8. The figures in 2006–07 and 2007–08 do not agree with the Supplementary Budgetary Information publication which reports totals of £5910 million and £5805 million respectively. This is to ensure that the above table reconciles to the administration budget.
  9. The actual outturn in 2005–06 is expected to show a small reduction.

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