§ A. Volume
§ 1. The changes in expenditure programmes for 1981–82 due to policy decisions since the March Public Expenditure White Paper (Cmnd. 7841) are: 221
| 1981–82 £million at 1980 Survey Prices† |
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| Nationalised Industries | ||
| Increases in EFLs (other than for British Steel) including revised provision for shortfall | +620 | |
| Other policy increases* | ||
| Special employment measures | +245 | |
| Industrial support | +52 | |
| Industry (other) | +10 | |
| Health (withdrawal of some proposals for new charges) | +121 | |
| Civil superannuation (accelerated retirement of civil servants) | +64 | |
| Trade | +21 | |
| +510 | ||
| Other significant policy changes* | ||
| (i) Local Authority Current Expenditure (England)—reduction by about 3 per cent, instead of 2 per cent, from planned level for 1980–81 | -165 | |
| (ii) Further changes in Departmental programmes (excluding elements of local authority current expenditure included in (i)) | ||
| Agriculture Departments | -36 | |
| Department of Employment | -25 | |
| Department of Transport | -21 | |
| Department of Environment (including PSA) | -158 | |
| Home Office | -17 | |
| Department of Education and Science | -52 | |
| Office of Arts & Libraries | -10 | |
| Department of Health & Social Security (health) | -25 | |
| (iii) Other Departments | ||
| Defence | -200 | |
| Foreign & Commonwealth Office | -16 | |
| Export Credits Guarantee Department | -166 | |
| Department of Health & Social Security (social security) | -66 | |
| Scotland, Wales and N. Ireland (including changes to local authority current expenditure in Scotland and Wales)‡ (about) | -90 | |
| Other (about) | -15 | |
| -1,060 | ||
| EC refunds agreed on 30 May 1980 | -650 |
§ 2. The changes take account of the salary savings expected in 1981–82: from the progressive reductions in Civil Service numbers to 630,000 by 1984.
§ 3 The list does not include changes where the exact amount will be decided later, for example, British Steel and child benefit. Nor does it include the estimating adjustments, for example, for demographic and economic factors, which will be made in the public expenditure White Paper to be published at the time of the Budget. The White Paper will include further details of the policy changes for 1981–82 and will set out the plans for 1982–83 and 1983–84.
§ 4. The figures are in the prices used for the 1980 Public Expenditure Survey. "1980 Survey Prices" means for most expenditure broadly the prices of late 1979, which were some 18 per cent. higher than the 1979 survey prices used in Cmnd. 7841, For transfer payments (including overseas aid), 1980 survey prices are generally estimated average prices for 1979–80, ie about the same as those in Cmnd. 7841, as a result of a change of definition since that White Paper.
§ B.Cash limits
§ 5. Cash limits and Votes for expenditure other than pay will allow for an average level of prices in 1981–82 11 per cent. higher than the corresponding level in 1980–81.
§ 6. The cash limits for the rate support grant and for the universities' grant will include allowance for increases in earnings of 6 per cent. in annual settlements due before 1 August 1981, and also provisionally of the same amount for annual settlements due after that date. The allowance for pay in other cash limits, and Votes, will be so set that the pay of the relevant groups is dealt with broadly within the same financial disciplines. The outcome of settlements in particular cases will depend on the way in which the cash is allocated.
§ Footnotes:
§ * The increases and reductions shown include the net effect of various minor policy changes.
§ † Total changes are rounded to the nearest £5 million.
§ ‡ The exact changes to Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland programmes, in parallel with those of English programmes, will be given in due course.