HC Deb 25 June 1980 vol 987 cc209-10W
Dr. Edmund Marshall

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what cash limit now applies to the expenditure of the Parliamentary Boundary Commission for England; and how this compares with the commission's expenditure in previous years.

Mr. Channon

I have been asked to reply.

The English and Welsh Boundaries Commissions are serviced by a single Secretariat for which the cash limit for 1980–81 is £191,000. Expenditure for the previous three years is as follows:

£
1979–80 100,419 (provisional out-turn)
1978–79 203,413
1977–78 63,475

Mr. Biffen

Such information as is available is presented in the table below.