§ 1997 Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if, following the recent Budget, he will give his estimate of the total real level of his Department's budget, in 1995–96 prices, in(a)(b) 1998–99; if he will estimate what such figures were for (1) 1997–98 and (2) 1998–99 following the November 1996 Budget on the basis of the estimates of the GDP deflator contained in that Budget; and if he will make a statement. [8316]
§ Mr. Fatchett[holding answer 14 July 1997]: The figures requested for this Department's spending plans within the Control Total in £000,000 and expressed at 1995–96 prices are as follows:
(a) 1,021, (b) 990, (1) 1,036, (2) 1,013.
§ Mr. BruceTo ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs what new plans he has to introduce cuts and savings in his Department as a result of the effect on his Department's budgets for 1997–98 and 1998–99 of the upward revisions to the GDP deflators in the Budget on 2 July; and if he will make a statement. [8317]
§ Mr. Fatchett[holding answer 14 July 1997]: All Departments are reallocating spending within their departmental ceilings as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review.