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<p>As is the norm for departmental spending under this and previous Administrations,
actual outturn estimates will vary from initial allocations, reflecting the activity
of the individual programmes within the budget headings and the profile of how money
is spent. The Explanatory Memorandum was prepared in February 2013, published in July
2013, and is a snapshot of the notional allocations at that point in time; in turn,
it reported on changes from the 2012-13 Supplementary Estimate.</p><p> </p><p><em>Explanatory
Memorandum 2013-14 Main Estimates: Budget Allocations</em></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>
</p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>£ million</em></p></td><td><p><em>2011-12</em></p></td><td><p><em>2012-13</em></p></td><td><p><em>2013-14</em></p></td><td><p><em>2014-15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Integration</p></td><td><p>10.7</p></td><td><p>15.0</p></td><td><p>10.8</p></td><td><p>4.1</p></td></tr><tr><td><p>Big
Society and Community Rights</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>19.5</p></td><td><p>27.8</p></td><td><p>23.1</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>For the latest outturn estimates for integration, I refer the rt. hon. Member
to the Written Ministerial Statement made by my rt. hon. Friend, the Secretary of
State for Communities and Lcoal Government (Eric Pickles) today. The figure for Big
Society and Community rights are as follows:</p><p> </p><table><tbody><tr><td><p><em>£
million</em></p></td><td><p><em>2011-12</em></p></td><td><p><em>2012-13</em></p></td><td><p><em>2013-14</em></p></td><td><p><em>2014-15</em></p></td></tr><tr><td><p>
</p></td><td><p>8.9</p></td><td><p>12.3</p></td><td><p>18.9</p></td><td><p>23.7</p></td></tr></tbody></table><p>
</p><p>We received unbudgeted income of £2 million in 2012-13 and £1.6 million in
2013-14 (a legacy of the New Deal for Communities); in turn, this has reduced the
outturn figures for Big Society and Community Rights allocations, but not the actual
spending (as the income reduces the request for funding for the Department from the
public purse).</p><p> </p><p>The Community Rights programmes are part of our Big Society
agenda. Some funding was re-classified after the 2011 Spending Review moving to the
‘Integration’ heading. These accounting categories are somewhat arbitrary – as many
of our integration projects are about putting the Big Society principles in practice:
empowering individuals, neighbourhoods and communities to solve problems and improve
quality of life. I refer the rt. hon. Member to the Written Ministerial Statement
made by my Rt hon Friend, the Secretary of State (Eric Pickles) today, which lists
the integration projects we have funded to illustrate this point.</p><p> </p><p> </p>
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