HC Deb 15 July 1988 vol 137 cc372-3W
Mr. Crowther

To ask the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster if he will list the levels of funding of the British Overseas Trade Board for 1988–89 and the last five financial years.

Mr. Alan Clark

The British Overseas Trade Board guides and directs my Department's export promotion effort. The amounts of expenditure in each of the past five years and planned for the current year are as follows:

£ millions
Gross expenditure Net expenditure
1983–84 29.8 22.2
1984–851 37.4 28.5
1985–862 39.1 27.7
1986–87 40.0 25.3
1987–883 40.2 25.2
1988–894 44.4 27.2
1 Includes expenditure on publicity and promotion previously shown as expenditure of the Central Office of Information. The expenditure amounted to £2.1 million.
2 Includes revenue from the operation of the export intelligence service previously treated as computer services receipts. Receipts amounted to £0.5 million.
3 The outturn for 1987–88 is provisional. Includes expenditure of £0.4 million on publications for the statistics and market intelligence library previously treated as part of general expenditure on libraries.
4 Includes the grant-in-aid to the International Customs Tariff Bureau of £0.38 million. Includes £0.4 million for the second half of the year on the "New Products from Britain" service previously borne by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office.