§ Mr. John Mooreasked the Minister of State for the Civil Service whether he will estimate the percentage of each cash limit for 1978-79 for pay and general administrative expenses that is pay alone; whether he will give a breakdown of the general administrative expenses; and whether he will provide comparative figures for previous years.
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§ Mr. Charles R. Morris:For those cash blocks for which I have responsibility the following table gives for 1978–79 the
Department Cash block Percentage Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food MAFF1 80 Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce IBAP1 32 Cabinet Office CO1 92 Central Office of Information COI1 89 Charity Commission CC1 90 Crown Estate Office CEO1 88 Customs and Excise CE1 89 Department of Education and Science DES1 92 Department of Employment (including DE and ACAS) DEM1 86 Department of Energy DEN1 85 Department of the Environment DOE1 70 Department of the Environment (Property Services Agency) DOE3 64 Exchequer and Audit Department EA1 90 Export Credits Guarantee Department ECGD1 87 Office of Fair Trading OFT1 81 Foreign and Commonwealth Office FCO1 57 Forestry Commission FC1 91 Registry of Friendly Societies FSR1 81 Government Actuary's Department GAD1 83 Department of Health and Social Security DHSS1 63 Home Office HO1 82 Department of Industry Dl1 86 Inland Revenue IR1 89 Land Registry LR1 81 Lord Chancellor's Department LCD 1 82 National Debt Office NDO1 83 Department for National Savings DNS1 45 Ordnance Survey OS1 68 Overseas Development, Ministry of ODM1 74 Parliamentary Commissioner and Health Service Commissioner PCHC1 86 Paymaster General's Office PMGO1 66 Office of Population Censuses and Surveys OPCS1 93 Department of Prices and Consumer Protection DPCP1 86 Privy Council Office PCO1 91 Public Record Office PRO1 91 Public Trustee Office PTO1 95 Public Works Loan Commission PWLC1 90 Her Majesty's Stationery Office HMSO1 49 Department of Trade DOT1 86 Department of Transport DTP1 64 H.M. Treasury HMT1 57 Treasury Solicitor TS1 92 Scottish Office SO1 88 Scottish Courts Administration SCA1 86 Department of Registers of Scotland DRS1 95 Registrar General's Office (Scotland) RGO(S)1 84 Scottish Record Office SRO1 83 Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer QLTR1 93 Welsh Office WO1 75 Northern Ireland Office NIO1 95 Cash limits are net of receipts. In those cases where the pay element was greater than the net cash limit the percentages shown are based on the gross amounts used in calculating the cash limit. Some cash blocks include expenditure which is neither pay nor general administrative expenses.
General administrative expenses cover a wide variety of non-staff expenditure on goods and services and also appears in cash limits which are not my responsibility. For 1978–79 significant components were:
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Percent. Travel, subsistence and removals 25 Telecommunications 14 Postage 10 Payments to common service departments 5 Other Post Office services 4 In my answer to the hon. Member for St Marylebone (Mr. Baker) on 17th May 1977 I gave comparative figures for 1977–78.—[Vol. 932, c. 85–87.]