HC Deb 25 May 1989 vol 153 cc727-8W
Mr. Butler

To ask the Secretary of State for Health if he has any changes to announce to both the cash and gross running cost limits for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys for 1989–90.

Mr. Freeman

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Revised Estimate, the cash limit for class XX, vote 15 will be reduced by £114,000 from £30,367,000 to £30,253,000. The OPCS gross running cost limit for class XX, vote 15 will be decreased by £114,000 from £35,491,000 to £35,377,000. The reductions reflect a correction to running costs, which included the overhead costs of methodology and consultancy expenditure by OPCS, by a transfer to the section of the vote for the administrative costs of social survey work exempt from gross running cost control. The costs will be fully offset by increased appropriations in aid from customer departments.

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