HC Deb 24 April 1991 vol 189 cc457-8W
Mr. Sillars

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland which Departments under his responsibility will have an underspend of over £500,000 in the past finacial year.

Mr. Lang

Wholly reliable estimates of outturn for 1990–91 are not yet available. The best estimates currently available are published in the "Summary and Guide to the 1991–92 Supply Estimates"—Cm. 1454—and the estimates themselves.

Provisional outturn for 1990–91 on cash-limited expenditure will be reported to Parliament through a White Paper as soon as possible. Details of outturn on non-cash limited voted expenditure will be available in the appropriation accounts in the normal way.

whether the ambassador conveyed to Mr. Balawi Her Majesty's Government's expressed concern at the support given to Saddam Hussein throughout the Gulf war by the Palestine Liberation Organisation.

Mr. Douglas Hogg

Her Majesty's ambassador in Tunis has frequent meetings with PLO officials, including Hakam Balawi, whom he last saw on 15 April. He has made quite clear to the PLO our strong disapproval of its equivocal policy on the Gulf crisis.

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