Public Expenditure (Hansard, 28 July 1988)

§ Mr. Worthington

To ask the Secretary of State for Employment if he will publish a table in theOfficial Report, in the same format as his written reply of 7 July, Official Report, columns 697–98, on receipts classified as charges in respect of his programme expenditure over the years 1982–83 to 1990–91, indicating the receipts in respect of running costs expenditure together with a supplementary analysis indicating, separately, the amounts of

Table 1—Receipts against running costs which originate as departmental running costs (£ million)
	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	1987–88¹	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91
	outturn	outturn	outturn	outturn	outturn	outturn	plans	plans	plans
Receipts relating to fees for training in skillcentres at request of Training Commission and Employment Service	2	10	72	78	70	66	60	42	28
Receipts relating to fees for professional and executive recruitment services in respect of supervisors for the Community Programme	—	—	—	—	—	2	1	1	1
Departmental totals	2	10	72	78	70	68	61	43	29
¹ Estimated.

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receipts in respect of programme expenditure and of running costs expenditure estimated to have been met from other public expenditure programmes.

§ Mr. Cope

The following tables supplement the information on programme expenditure given in the reply to the hon. Member on 7 July 1988, at columns697–98. For the years 1982–83 to 1990–91 they give a breakdown of receipts received and expected by the Department of Employment group: table 1 shows receipts in respect of running costs which originate as departmental running costs and table 2 gives other receipts in respect of running costs.

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Table 2—Breakdown of other Individual Running Costs Receipts (£ million)
	1982–83	1983–84	1984–85	1985–86	1986–87	¹1987–88	1988–89	1989–90	1990–91
	Outturn	Outturn	Outturn	Outturn	Outturn	Outturn	Plans	Plans	Plans
Receipts relating to administrative costs of the Community programme	2	8	8	16	21	21	24	24	24
Receipts relating to fees for training in skillcentres	2	1	9	10	11	15	26	28	30
Receipts relating to recoveries from National Insurance Fund of the cost of staff in the Employment Service dealing with long-term unemployed.	6	4	3	3	3	8	4	3	3
Receipts from the sale of COIC publications.	—	—	—	—	—	1	1	1	1
Receipts relating to fees for professional and executive recruitment services.	6	8	9	9	9	8	4	4	4
Receipts relating to contributions from the Redundancy and Maternity Pay Funds towards the cost of Industrial Tribunals	1	1	2	1	1	2	2	2	2
Receipts relating to recovery of administrative costs from the Redundancy and Maternity Pay Funds.	5	6	6	6	7	7	5	6	6
Receipts from the Agencies and other Government Departments	5	5	4	4	6	16	16	17	17
Receipts relating to fees for licensing employment agencies and other minor services.	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	1	1
Receipts relating to recoveries from Department of Health and Social Security of the cost of administration of unemployment benefit and associated payments.	182	237	213	274	293	311	319	335	343
Receipts relating to the licensing of nuclear installations.	3	3	1	3	4	5	5	5	5
Other HSC fees and receipts.	2	2	3	2	2	3	3	3	3
Receipts relating to refund from Maternity Pay Fund for statutory payments made to civil servants.	3	3	4	4	4	2	—	—	—
Departmental Totals	221	281	266	335	365	401	412	427	441
¹ Estimated

Note: Because of rounding the sum of the components does not always equate with the totals.