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Other administration costs

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4 Other administration costs
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Rentals under operating leases
Hire of plant and machinery
Land and buildings
Total rentals under operating leases
PFI and other service concession arrangements service charges
Interest charges
EU Funding received – transferred to DfID
Goods and services
Pensions administration fee – MyCSP Limited
Pensions administration additional costs – MyCSP Limited
Pensions administration fee – Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme
Pensions administration additional costs - Royal Mail Statutory Pension Scheme
Transactional Shared Services
Accommodation and utilities
Business rates
IT costs
Consultancy
Professional services
Supplies and services
Other staff-related costs
Travel, subsistence and hospitality
Public Duty Costs Allowance (2)
Auditors’ remuneration and expenses – Arm’s Length Bodies (1)
Commissioners’ expenses
Total goods and services
Non-cash items
Depreciation
Release of deferred income
Amortisation
Impairment – Property, plant and equipment
Impairment – Intangible assets
Auditors’ remuneration and expenses – Core Department (1)
Bad debt write off
Provision for bad debt
Total non-cash items
Total
(1) During the year the Department and its Arm’s Length Bodies have not purchased any non-audit services from its auditors, the National Audit Office (2013-14: £Nil)
(2) The Public Duty Cost Allowance was introduced to assist former Prime Ministers, still active in public life. Payments are made only to meet the actual cost of continuing to fulfil public duties. The costs are a reimbursement of incurred expenses for necessary office costs and secretarial costs arising from their special position in public life. The Public Duty Cost Allowance amounted to £331,818 ( 2013-14: £331,348) and included:
The Rt Hon Tony Blair - 2014-15: £115,000 accrued (2013-14: £115,000); The Rt Hon Gordon Brown - 2014-15: £112,450 of which £101,818 is accounted for in 2014-15 and £10,632 will be accounted for in 2015-16 (2013-14: £101,348); Sir John Major - 2014-15: £115,000 (2013-14: £115,000).
In addition to the allowance paid, former Prime Ministers are entitled to claim a pension allowance to contribute towards their staff pension costs. This is limited to a maximum of 10% of their staff salary costs. Such payments are made directly to the pension providers of those staff; they are not paid to the former Prime Ministers or their staff. The pension allowance amounted to a credit of £115,463 being the reversal of a brought forward accrual (2013-14: £76,000).