§ Sir Ivan LawrenceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has for changes to the 1993–94 cash limits within his responsibilities and to his Department's running costs limits.
§ Mr. HowardSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for class VIII, vote 2—prisons, England and Wales—will be increased by £8,700,000 from £1,524,554,000 to £1,533,254,000.
The additional provision is necessary because of the need to meet costs arising from the cancellation of the planned new Prison Service headquarters. The increase will be met from provision reserved for this purpose by HM Treasury and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
The cash limit for class VIII, vote 3—Home Office administration, immigration and police support services, England Wales—will be reduced by £1,930,000 from £1,312,481,000 to £1,310,551,000 to reflect transfers to the Department for Education, Property Holdings and the Department of the Environment, and to offset part of the new expenditure proposed in class VIII, vote 1—police, Criminal Injuries Compensation Board and other grants, England and Wales.
The Home Office gross running cost limit will be reduced by £10,357,000 from £1,653,927,000 to £1,643,570,000 to reflect a reallocation of money between subheads in class VIII, vote 2.
The local authority capital non-voted cash limit will be decreased by £358,000 from £125,593,000 to £125,235,000. The reduced provision results from the transfer of unallocated supplementary credit approvals from the Home Office to the Welsh Office, for the purpose of the replacement of fire service mobilisation and communications systems.