Departmental Vote (Cash Limits)

HC Deb 22 November 1979 vol 974 c342W

Mr. Watson

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what changes he intends to make to the cash limit relating to votes VIII 6 and XIV 1.

Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

As the Property Services Agency took over accommodation services for museums and galleries from another part of my Department on 1 October 1979, £5.8 million is being transferred from the cash limit for Vote VIII 6 to the cash limit for Vote XIV 1, to give a revised total cash limit of £385.8 million. A winter Supplementary Estimate will be presented to Parliament shortly including this additional expenditure on Vote XIV 1; the outturn on Vote VIII 6 will be reduced by an equivalent amount.