§ Mr. HealdTo ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what changes there will be to the Lord Chancellor's Department's running costs limits for 1993–94.
Mr. John M. TaylorThe cash limit for class IX, vote 11—Public Record Office—will be increased by £309,000 from £37,858,000 to £38,167,000. The running cost limit for class IX, vote 11 will be increased by £309,000 from £24,200,000 to £24,509,000 to cover certain payments to Property Holdings for building maintenance. This increase will be financed by a transfer of provision from Property Holdings and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
The cash limit for class IX, vote 1—Lord Chancellor's Department; administration of justice; England and Wales —will be reduced by £17,327,000 from £795,529,000 to £778,202,000 as a result of lower than anticipated expenditure on magistrates court grants and because the payment needed for the Land Registry trading fund in respect of the value of work outstanding at 1 April 1993 was £7,327,000 lower than originally estimated.
The cash limit for class IX, vote 3—Northern Ireland court service; administration of justice—will be reduced by £880,000 from £24,769,000 to £23,889,000. The reduction arises because of savings from keener than expected tenders in several building contracts and a professional services commission which have been let during the current year. The savings from the cash limit reductions on votes 1 and 3 will more than fully offset additional expenditure on class IX, vote 4, subject to approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, required for higher than estimated expenditure on legal advice and assistance and criminal legal aid.
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