§ Mr. Lightbownasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he intends to make any changes to the cash limits within his responsibility.
§ Mr. HurdSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate, the cash limit on the Prisons Vote (class IX, vote 8) will be raised by £22,814,000 from £591,444,000 to £614,258,000. This additional provision will be used to cover the cost of acquiring, converting and bringing into use RAF Lindholme as a prison, and of other measures taken to cater for the exceptional surge in the prison population during the first half of the year. In addition, the provision will be used to make good a shortfall in the level of receipts expected to be realised from the sale of staff quarters.
The additional provision is partly offset by savings on the Central Administrative, Miscellaneous and Community Service and Civil Defence Vote (class IX, vote 7), the cash limit for which will be reduced by £9,000,000 from £306,352,000 to £297,352,000. The net increase of £13,814,000 will be charged to the Reserve and will not therefore add to the public expenditure planning total.