§ Mr. Walter Johnsonasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what has been the increase in percentage terms in the take-home pay of a married man with two children under 16 years, who earns £70, £80, £90 and £100 per week, respectively, as a result of Budget changes trom April 1977 to the present.
§ Mr. Robert SheldonI shall let my hon. Friend have a replay as soon as possible.
£ million Cash Block Reasons for change Change New Cash Limit DES 2 … Extension of free school milk +7.4 74.4 DEM 2 … Additional funds for teacher retraining +1.2 595.2 DEN 2 … Transfer from DEN to DOE of certain responsibilities in the civil nuclear waste management field following the Government's reply (Cmnd. 6820) to the Sixth Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution (Cmnd. 6618) (matched by a corresponding increase in DOE 2) -3.6 139.8 DOE2 … Additional expenditure on factory building by the Development Commission announced in the Budget; transfer of responsibility for research into civil nuclear waste from DEN (matched by a corresponding reduction in DEN 2): and transfer from DOE/LA6 + 14.5 133.5 DHSS2 … Extra provision for the Health Services +46.9 4,923.9 HO1 … Provision for higher expenditure on law, order and protective services + 2.7 256.0 HO2 … Provision for higher expenditure on law, order and protective services +0.3 140.3* IR1 … Administrative costs of Budget tax changes +2.9 400.2 SEPD1 … Environmental services; Scottish Tourist Board +0.2 86.3 SED1 … Environmental services; Scottish Sports Council, and school milk + 1.0 65.2 SHHD1 … Extra provision for the Health Services +5.0 702.4 SHHD2 … Provision for higher expenditure on law, order and protective services +0.2 13.6 WO2 … Extra provision for the Health Services; miscellaneous environmental services; and school milk + 3.6 386.9 WO6 … Assistance for certain areas affected by early steel closures, and environmental services; rural infrastructure projects + 15.0 54.0* NIO2 … Provision for higher expenditure on law, order and protective services +0.1 109.0 NID1 … Health Service, environmental services, energy conservation, school milk, school meals and teacher retraining +5.3 1,147.3 DOE/LA2 … Measures to promote energy conservation + 14.9 2,659.6 DOE/LA4 … Assistance for certain areas affected by early steel closures, and coastal protection +7.5 33.1 DOE/LA6 … Increased provision for environmental services and the inner cities announced in the Budget, offset by transfer to DOE2 and DOE/NT1 -7.7 90.0 DOE/NT1 … Transfer from DOE/LA6 +8.9 59.8 SO/LAI … Extra provision for the Health Services, environmental services, and law, order and protective services + 3.0 267.6 SO/LA2 … Measures to promote energy conservation, offset by a transfer of funds from this cash limit to meet (non-cash limited) increases in the subsidy paid on the new towns accumulated General Revenue Account deficit + 1.1 345.8 SO/LA4 … Local authority capital expenditure on education +3.5 55.6 WO/LA 1 … Measures to promote energy conservation +0.9 104.6 * The sum of the original cash limit and the addition differs from this figure because of a rounding correction. The cash limits—DOE6 and SO2—on the rate support grant increase orders for 1978–79 will be adjusted in due course to compensate local authorities for England and Wales and Scotland for the loss in expected income as a result of the decision not to increase school meal charges this autumn.