§ Mr. SutcliffeTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what changes he has to announce to cash limits and running cost limits on votes within his responsibility for 1997–98. [5793]
§ Dr. HowellsSubject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the cash limit for Class IX, Vote 1, Department for Education and Employment programmes and central services, will be increased by £14,693,000 from £9,404,771,000 to £9,419,464,000.
This is the result of a transfer of £1,500,000 to Class X, Vote 1 (the Department of National Heritage) for Dance and Drama students, a transfer of £13,000,000 from Class XI, Vote 1 (the Department of Health) for the merger of Imperial College with the West London Medical School; a decrease of £621,000 in capital expenditure offset by a corresponding increase in the non-Voted DfEE/LACAP cash limit to fund a school capital project, with no overall change to the DfEE's control total, and a switch of £3,814,000 from section G to Section F of the Vote to enable the British Academy to administer the Post Graduate Awards Scheme.
As a result of the changes, the DfEE/LACAP cash limit will be increased by £621,000 from £72,505,000 to £73,126,000.
The running costs provision for Class IX, Vote 1 will be increased by £390,000 from £255,174,000 to £255,564,000. The gross running costs limit for the Department for Education and Employment is increased by £390,000 from £1,056,750,000 to £1,057,140,000.