An Act to authorise the use of resources for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2009 and to apply certain sums out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending with 31st March 2009; to appropriate the supply authorised in this Session of Parliament for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2009; and to repeal certain Consolidated Fund and Appropriation Acts.
Whereas the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled have resolved to authorise the use of resources and the issue of sums out of the Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply which they have granted to Her Majesty in this Session of Parliament: —
Be it therefore enacted by the Queen's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: —
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Use of resources for the year ending with 31st March 20091 Use of resources for the year ending with 31st March 2009
The use of resources for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2009 is authorised to the amount of £253,036,312,000.
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Issue out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending with 31st March 20092 Issue out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending with 31st March 2009
The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom and apply to the service of the year ending with 31st March 2009 the sum of £250,409,641,000.
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Appropriation of amounts and sums voted for supply services and limits on appropriations in aid3 Appropriation of amounts and sums voted for supply services and limits on appropriations in aid
(1) All the amounts and sums authorised by this Act and the other Act mentioned in Schedule 1 to this Act for the service of the year ending with 31st March 2009, totalling, as is shown in the said Schedule, £447,902,670,000 in amounts of resources authorised for use and £430,086,603,000 in sums authorised for issue from the Consolidated Fund, are appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the Acts mentioned in the said Schedule 1, for the services and purposes specified in Schedule 2 to this Act.
(2) Parts 1 to 52, 54 and 55 of Schedule 2 also set out, for the services and purposes specified in those Parts of that Schedule, the limits set for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (c. 20)
on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid for the year ending with 31st March 2009.
(3) Those limits shall be deemed to have been in force from 21st April 2008.
(4) A direction given after the passing of this Act for authorising the application of resources as appropriations in aid for the year ending with 31st March 2009—
(a) may, to the extent of any excess proposed in Estimates or in a Statement of Excesses laid before the House of Commons, authorise appropriations in aid in excess of the relevant limit set for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 for that year by this Act or a previous Appropriation Act; but
(b) where the limit so set has not, by 12th August following the giving of the direction, been increased by a subsequent Appropriation Act or has by that date been so increased by less than the excess, shall be deemed to have authorised appropriations in aid only up to that limit or, as the case may be, up to that limit as so increased.
(5) Nothing in Schedule 2 limits the amounts which are or may be made applicable, in accordance with any direction, as appropriations in aid of resources for the service of the House of Commons Administration for any year.
(6) The abstracts of Schedule 1 and of Schedule 2 which are annexed to this Act shall have effect as part of this Act.
4 Repeals
The enactments mentioned in Schedule 3 are hereby repealed.
5 Short title
This Act may be cited as theAppropriation (No. 2) Act 2008.
SCHEDULE 1
Resources authorised for use and Grants out of the Consolidated Fund
Part |
Resources authorised for use |
Grants out of the Consolidated Fund |
£ |
£ |
For the service of the year ending 31st March 2009– |
|
|
194,866,358,000 |
179,676,962,000 |
|
|
253,036,312,000 |
250,409,641,000 |
Total .... |
447,902,670,000 |
430,086,603,000 |
SCHEDULE 2
Appropriation of amounts and sums voted for supply services and limits on appropriations in aid
1
Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2008–09Part 1
Department for Children, Schools and Families, 2008–09
Table of—
(a) the resources authorised for use to meet the costs of the services and purposes which are specified in the first column of the Table for the year ending with 31st March 2009;
(b) the sums authorised for issue out of the Consolidated Fund to meet those costs; and
(c)limits set, for the purposes of section 2 of the Government Resources and Accounts Act 2000 (c. 20), on the resources applicable as appropriations in aid to meet those costs.
Estimate/ Request for Resources |
Net Resources authorised for use |
Grants out of the Consolidated Fund |
Operating Appropriations in Aid |
Non-operating Appropriations in Aid |
£ |
£ |
£ |
£ |
DEPARTMENT FOR CHILDREN, SCHOOLS AND FAMILIES |
51,448,517,000 |
0 |
1. To help build a competitive economy and inclusive society by: creating opportunities for everyone to develop their learning; releasing potential in people to make the most of themselves; and achieving excellence in standards of education and levels of skills |
49,807,148,000 |
1,735,000 |
Loans to voluntary aided schools; provision relating to former grant-maintained schools; the Assisted Places Scheme; music and dance schools; support for the Academy of Gifted and Talented Youth; City Technology Colleges; support for Academies; the school curriculum and its assessment; modernising the teaching profession and other educational services and initiatives; initiatives to write-off student loans to teachers in England and Wales; class size reductions; school and local education authority intervention; specialist schools; excellence in cities and other specific grants to local authorities including those through the Standards Fund; Dedicated School Grants; grants in aid to the National College for School Leadership, the Training and Development Agency for Schools, the British Educational Communications and Technology Agency, the Schools Food Trust, the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority and the Partnerships for Schools; support for the Centre for Information Learning Technology; support for Teachers TV; capital grants to schools including those through the Standards Fund; the Youth Service including the Youth Task Force and the Respect Agenda; careers guidance and services including through the Connexions Service including working capital grants and loans for capital purchases; education provision and initiatives, capital grants to music, dance and other schools; payments for education in prisons and other custodial institutions; education maintenance allowances; the provision of training and assessment programmes for young people; initiatives to improve education, training and qualifications arrangements and access to these; payments to the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills to support 14-19 programmes; Millennium Volunteers; payments to the Home Office to support the Criminal Records Bureau; payments and grants to support personal and children's social services, and initiatives relating to teenage pregnancy, hospital and community health services; payments for implementing the Aiming High programme children's secure accommodation and family policy; family parenting and law grants; Grants in Aid to the Children and Family Court Advisory and Support Service, the Children's Workforce Development Council and the Children's Commissioner; payments and grants to support parenting and parenting organisations; children's workforce and development; grants to support Strengthening Families, Marriages and Relationships; payments for Child Trust Fund top ups, including through the Devolved Administrations; payments to support and develop vetting and barring; payments to the Department for Communities and Local Government to support Area Based Grants; investments and loans to support PFI; payments to the Department for Business Enterprise and Regulatory Reform in connection with the Regional Development Agencies and the London Development Agency; loans and residual costs of the winding up of the Training and Enterprise Councils (TECs); the distribution of residual TEC assets, returned to the Secretary of State under the terms of the TEC Licence, to local voluntary, community and business support organisations; grant in aid, grants and working capital loans to the General Teaching Council; the Department's own administration and research and payments for the administration of teachers' pensions; information and publicity services; departmental restructuring costs; initiatives and programmes supported by the European Union, the Capital Modernisation Fund and with other Government Department's under the Invest to Save Budget; compensation payments to teachers and staff of certain institutions and teachers' medical fees; and associated non- cash items. |
2. Promoting the physical, intellectual and social development of babies and young children through Sure Start, Early Years Provision and Childcare |
1,587,887,000 |
0 |
Promoting the physical, intellectual and social development of babies and young children; childcare initiatives including quality... |
