§ Mr. Burtasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether any changes will be made to the cash-limited Votes for his Department.
§ Mr. Tom KingSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the cash limit for Class IV, Vote 17 will be increased from £232,298,000 by £9,000,000 to £241,298,000. There will be no addition to the planning total of public expenditure, since a corresponding reduction will be made in the cash limit for Class IV, Vote 13 relative to Labour Market Services (Department of Employment) which will be reduced from £692,622,000 to £683,622,000. The increase on Vote 17 is required to meet the cost of additional staff in the unemployment benefit service to cover the consequences of revised economic assumptions and of the industrial action by staff at the Department of Health and Social Security at Newcastle.