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Annex A: Expenditure tables

Table 7 – Total Department for Work and Pensions identifiable expenditure on services, by country and region

This table shows expenditure on services which can be analysed as being for the benefit of individual countries and regions. The expenditure represents the Department’s total expenditure, excluding Housing Benefit and Council Tax Benefit, for each region, with country and United Kingdom totals.

The majority of the expenditure is identifiable which means that it can be recognised as having been paid to and
for the advantage of individuals within particular regions. Some non-identifiable expenditure is shown from 2005–06; this is planned spending which is deemed to be on behalf of the United Kingdom as a whole.

The expenditure shown in respect of Northern Ireland and outside the United Kingdom is explained in the notes to Table 7. More information about the non-identifiable expenditure is also shown in the Table 7 notes. Expenditure plans are mostly allocated to regions on the basis of the most recent outturn information.

Table 7 Department for Work and Pensions’ identifiable expenditure on services, by country and region
£ million
  2000 – 01 2001 – 02 2002 – 03 2003 – 04 2004 – 05 2005 – 06 2006 – 07 2007 – 08
  outturn outturn outturn outturn outturn plans plans plans
North East 4,534 4,836 5,016 5,226 5,369 5,519 5,588 5,750
North West 11,184 11,977 12,420 12,990 13,406 13,885 14,045 14,493
Yorkshire and Humberside 7,434 7,928 8,248 8,647 8,954 9,253 9,363 9,693
East Midlands 5,703 6,120 6,397 6,767 7,101 7,358 7,449 7,747
West Midlands 7,735 8,253 8,664 9,184 9,603 9,886 9,987 10,342
Eastern 6,709 7,204 7,666 8,159 8,615 8,919 9,023 9,403
London 8,819 9,348 9,897 10,622 11,062 11,134 11,142 11,422
South East 9,343 9,968 10,529 11,256 11,888 12,309 12,449 12,983
South West 6,817 7,240 7,594 8,034 8,423 8,779 8,902 9,286
Totals
England 68,278 72,874 76,431 80,884 84,422 87,042 87,947 91,119
Scotland 8,071 8,598 9,023 9,405 9,707 10,125 10,246 10,607
Wales 4,997 5,333 5,557 5,805 6,026 6,274 6,351 6,576
Northern Ireland 6 7 8 8 9 9 10 10
Total UK identifiable expenditure 81,352 86,813 91,019 96,102 100,163 103,451 104,553 108,312
Outside UK 1,537 1,604 1,692 1,784 1,963 1,969 2,055 2,159
Total UK identifiable expenditure 82,889 88,416 92,710 97,886 102,125 105,420 106,608 110,471
Non-identifiable expenditure 0 0 0 0 0 468 165 245
Total UK identifiable expenditure 82,889 88,416 92,710 97,886 102,125 105,888 106,773 110,716

Notes

  1. Figures may not sum due to rounding.
  2. The spending data shown in these tables is consistent with the country and regional analyses (CRA) published by HM Treasury in Chapter 7 of Public Spending Statistical Analyses (PESA) 2006. PESA contains more tables analysed by country and region, and also explains how the analysis was collected and the basis for allocating expenditure between countries and regions.
  3. The tables include the spending of the department and its NDPBs on payments to private sector and subsidies to public corporations. They do not include capital finance to public corporations but do include public corporations capital expenditure. They do not include payments to local authorities or local authorities own expenditure.
  4. The data are based on a subset of spending – identifiable expenditure on services – which is capable of being analysed as being for the benefit of individual countries and regions. Some planned expenditure which is incurred for the benefit of the UK as a whole, is shown as non-identifiable expenditure. The non- identifiable expenditure is made up of funding for the Departmental Unallocated Provision, Employment Development and Skills Fund, Welfare Modernisation Fund, Housing Benefit Reform Fund, Employment Development Fund and Employment Development and Modernisation Fund.
  5. The tables do not include depreciation, cost of capital charges or movements in provisions that are in DEL/AME. They do include salaries, procurement expenditure, capital expenditure and grants and subsidies paid to individuals and private sector enterprises.
  6. The figures were taken from the HM Treasury Public Expenditure database in December 2005 and the Regional distributions were completed in February 2006. Therefore the tables may not show the latest position and are not consistent with other tables in the report.
  7. Across government, most expenditure is not planned or allocated on a regional basis. Social security payments, for example, are paid to eligible individuals irrespective of where they live; the forward plans are simply allocated on the basis of the most recent outturn data, and do not represent a regional forecast. Expenditure on other programmes is allocated by looking at how all the projects across the departments area of responsibility, usually England, compare. So the analysis shows the regional outcome of spending decisions that have on the whole not been made primarily on a regional basis.
  8. The functional categories used are the same functional descriptors used in Tables 1 ,2, 3, and 5.
  9. Northern Ireland expenditure relates solely to the provision of free Television Licences for those aged over 75 years of age. All other benefit expenditure in Northern Ireland is the responsibility of the Northern Ireland Social Security Agency.
  10. Expenditure for outside the United Kingdom relates mainly to the payment of Retirement Pensions for older residents overseas.

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