Cash and Running Costs Limits (Hansard, 1 November 1994)

§ Mr. Streeter
To ask the Prime Minister what proposals there are to change the 1994–95 cash limit or running costs limit in respect of security and intelligence services.

§ The Prime Minister
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary token supplementary estimate, the cash limit for security and intelligence services, class XIX, vote 2 will be increased by £1,000 from 1099W £881,486,000 to £881,487,000 and the gross running cost limit will be reduced by £2,361,000 from £449,850,000 to £447,489,000. This takes account of increased capital spending arising from the slippage of a building project and unforeseen capital and other purchases. These increases are being offset by increased receipts and reductions in both running costs and other current expenditure.

§ Mr. Dunn
To ask the Prime Minister what proposals there are to change the 1994–95 cash limit or running costs limit for the Cabinet Office: other services vote.

§ The Prime Minister
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for the Cabinet Office: other services, class XIX, vote 1, will be increased by £1,452,000 from £43,381,000 to £44,833,000. At the same time, the running costs limit will be increased by £1,452,000 from £41,762,000 to £43,214,000.
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The increase reflects the transfer of certain administrative functions and the move to repayment for some common service support as follows:

(a)transfer of running costs provision for certain Ministry of Defence property charges (Class 1 Vote 1) (£494,000);

(b) transfer of running costs provision for support to former Prime Ministers (Class VIII, Vote 3) (£163,000);

(c) transfer of running costs provision for central services (Class XVII, Vote 1) (£80,000); and

(d) transfer of provision for the calculation of the average property price list (£3,000).

In addition, as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 14 July 1994, Official Report, columns 729–734, this vote is eligible for a cash limit increase of £721,000 in respect of end year flexibility arrangements for running costs expenditure. This supplementary estimate gives effect to the increase. All the increases are either offset by inter-departmental transfers or have been charged to the reverse and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.