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Cash, William (1)
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To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what basis the Office for National Statistics defines current spending for repairs and maintenance on roads as capital expenditure.
To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, on what basis the Office for National Statistics defines current spending for repairs and maintenance on roads as capital expenditure.
Asked by
William Cash
(Conservative)
Answered by
Stephen Timms
(Labour)
Answering body
Treasury
Type
Written questions
Status
Answered
Tabled on
14 March 2005
For answer on
24 March 2005
Answered on
24 March 2005
Mr. Cash: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer on what basis the Office for National Statistics defines current spending for
repairs and maintenance on roads as capital expenditure. [222370]
Mr. Timms: [holding answer 17 March 2005]: The information requested falls within the responsibility of the National
Statistician, who has been asked to reply.
Letter from Len Cook to Mr. William Cash, dated 24 March 2005:
As National Statistician I have been asked to reply to your recent Parliamentary Question asking on what basis the Office for
National Statistics (ONS) defines current spending for repairs and maintenance of roads as capital expenditure. (222370)
ONS classifies all current spending for repairs and maintenance of roads as current expenditure and none as capital expenditure. The
basis for classifying ordinary maintenance and repairs as current expenditure is from the 1995 European System of Accounts,
paragraph 3.108.
ONS found that it had incorrectly used a combination of two approaches for recording road maintenance expenditure in the public
sector current budget, resulting in double counting. This has now been corrected. This correction was initially, on
18 February, described as a reclassification from current to capital expenditure. However, in a News Release of
28 February, accompanying a technical note of the revision it was pointed out that the revision was most easily explained as
removing depreciation from both the current budget and net investment. It was not a conceptual reclassification of repair and
maintenance expenditure.
Subjects
Accountancy; Expenditure; Office for National Statistics; Statistics; Roads; Repairs and maintenance
Date
24 March 2005
Reference
432 c947W; 222370
House
House of Commons