§ Mr. Harry GreenwayTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he is proposing any change to the Central Statistical Office's cash limits for 1989–90.
§ Mr. LilleySubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for class XIX, vote 18 will be increased by £1,615,000, from £13,727,000 to £15,342,000 and the running cost limit by £1,163,000, from £10,804,000 to £11,967,000. Part of the increase reflects further transfers of provision from other Departments following the establishment of the Central Statistical Office as a separate Department: corresponding reductions will be included in supplementary estimates for the Cabinet Office: other services (class XX, vote 2), the634W Department of Trade and Industry (class V, vote 3) and the Department of Employment (class VII, vote 2). The remainder reflects provision to meet some of the additional administrative and other expenditure which arises for the Central Statistical Office as a separate Department, and to meet expenditure on a share register survey in connection with the Department's work to improve the quality of the national accounts' statistics. These elements (totalling £695,000) will be charged to the Reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.