Appropriation Act 2001

SCHEDULE 2.—Part 9 DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT, TRANSPORT AND THE REGIONS, 2001—02

Schedule of the resources authorised for use, and the sums authorised for issue out of the Consolidated Fund, to meet the costs of the services specified in the first column of the Schedule, which will be incurred during the year ending on 31st March 2002.

	Totals not exceeding
	Net Resources authorised for Use	Amounts to be Appropriated in Aid
	£	£
Request for Resources
1. Protecting and improving the environment, offering the opportunity of a decent home, enhancing opportunity in rural areas, promoting sustainable economic development through integrated regional and local action and an efficient market in the construction industry, and improving health and safety	8,750,266,000	152,055,000
Measures to reduce carbon dioxide emissions and improve energy efficiency, security and environmental practice; support to the environmental protection industry, for environmental technology and for measures to promote sustainable development; grants and other financial support to voluntary bodies; support for measures to stimulate sustainable consumption of goods and services; support for Environmental Campaigns Limited, the National Environmental Technology Centre, the Carbon Trust, the Waste and Resources Action Programme and the Wash Estuary Trial Bank; support for the aims and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity; support for measures which improve local environmental quality; pollution emergency response services; radon measurement and support of remedial works campaigns; grant-in-aid to the Environment Agency and British Waterways Board; compensation for sufferers, or their dependants, of certain dust-related diseases; water supply and sewerage services, including national security; subscriptions and contributions to international organisations; research, development, surveys, monitoring, statistics, advice and consultancies; publicity, promotion, awareness and publications; grant-in-aid Countryside Agency and Nature Conservancy Council for England; national parks grant; payments for the Housing Corporation; housing revenue account subsidy; the renewal of private sector housing; home buying and selling; housing transfers; homelessness and rough sleepers; housing management; rent and leasehold services; national approved letting scheme; The Rent Service Agency; support for the construction industry; regional development agencies; the London Development Agency; refurbishment of gypsy sites, deprived neighbourhoods, including New Deal for Communities; Urban Regeneration Agency (English Partnerships); regional chambers; housing action trusts; Estate Action; Groundwork; coalfields regeneration; European Union agency payments, including those for ports and railways in Wales; minor grants-in-aid, grants and payments in support of housing, construction, regeneration, countryside and wildlife initiatives; payments to Ordnance Survey (trading fund); planning, including minerals programmes; the Planning Inspectorate executive agency; European regional development fund projects not funded by or in advance of receipts; special payments; administration; and associated non-cash items.
2. Promoting modern, integrated and safe transport and providing customer-focused regulation	7,123,209,000	222,597,000
Ports and shipping services; support for the Maritime and Coastguard Agency; civil and international aviation services; support to nationalised transport industries; transport security and royal travel; payments to the Highways Agency for the management, maintenance and improvement of the trunk road network and motorway system in England, including the acquisition of land, publicity, scheme design and preparation, archaeological survey and rescue work; compensation; selling into wider markets including export opportunities; netting off of revenue from speeding offences, payments to private consortia for design, build, finance and operate schemes; 100 per cent grants to local authorities for works on local authority roads required or incurred by the Department and developers' contributions, together with the associated administrative costs, and research and development in support of the Highways Agency operations; research, development, surveys, monitoring, statistics, advice and consultancies; publicity, promotion, payments to local authorities for the routine maintenance of de-trunked roads, awareness and publications; grants to Railtrack, British Rail and London Transport; Strategic Rail Authority grant; transport grants to local authorities; the Channel Tunnel Rail Link and the Commission for Integrated Transport; railway industry and National Freight Company pensions funds; National Freight Company travel concessions; rebates of fuel duty to bus operators; vehicle and traffic enforcement; services for roads and local transport; support for other minor transport services, related trans-European network funds; and the Vehicle Certification Agency; grants to the Vehicle Inspectorate and the Driving Standards Agency; loans to the Vehicle Inspectorate and the Driving Standards Agency; driver and vehicle licensing and registration, the collection of revenue, compensation and pensions cost-relating to pre-DVLC local authority driver and vehicle licensing staff; the development and operation of other systems associated with registration and licensing, the provision by DVLA of anonymised data and other services; support for the haulage industry; Powershift and cleaner vehicles programmes; waterway freight grants; Greater London Authority transport grant; speed and red light camera enforcement; subscriptions and contributions to international organisations; special payments; administration and associated non-cash items relevant to the above.
3. Promoting a system of elected government in England responding to the needs of local communities	36,835,859,000	245,000
Payments for Valuation Office Agency rating and valuation services; payments to the Audit Commission for work in connection with best value inspection; payments to meet the expenses of valuation tribunals; reseach, development, surveys, monitoring, statistics, advice and consultancies; publicity, promotion, awareness and publications; grant-in-aid to the Local Government Commission and costs of mapping revised administrative and electoral boundaries following the Commission’s reviews; payments in connection with Government intervention in local authorities; general GLA grant; costs of preparing for the Greater London Authority and related bodies, and payments in connection with the mayoral and assembly elections; payments by the Secretary of State acting under transitional powers under the Greater London Act 1999; payment of revenue support grant and redistributed non-domestic rates to receiving authorities in England; payments to specified bodies and the Commission for Local Administration in England; grant-in-aid to the Standards Board for England; payments of SSA reduction grants and central support protection grant; PSA performance fund payments; payments in respect of the capital element of contracts let under the private finance initiative; emergency financial assistance to local authorities; special grants under section 88(b) of the Local Government Finance Act 1988; grants to beacon councils; repayments of excess contributions made by local authorities in respect of non-domestic rates in 1999—2000 and previous years; special payments; and associated non-cash items.
4. Providing for the administration of the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions, Government offices for the Regions and the Health and Safety Commission in meeting their objectives.	561,460,000	16,435,000
Administration and associated non-cash items, including the Government Offices for the Regions, the Neighbourhood Renewal Unit and the Teenage Pregnancy Unit; research; grant-in-aid to the Health and Safety Commission; the residual functions of PSA services; and loans to the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre executive agency trading fund.
Total Requests for Resources, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions	£53,270,794,000	£391,332,000
Total non-operating appropriations in aid, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions	£54,352,000
Total sums authorised for issue from the Consolidated Fund, Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions	£51,140,815,000