§ Mr. MossTo ask the Secretary of State for Health whether any changes will be made in the cash limits and running costs limit of his Department for 1989–90.
§ Mrs. Virginia BottomleyThe cash limit for class XIV, vote 1, hospital and community health and other services, England, will be reduced by £2,357,000 (front £11,909,826,000 to £11,907,469,000) to offset £1,600,000 of the cash limit increase on class XIV, vote 3 and to take account of an agreed control adjustment of £757,000 in respect of the use of conventional finance.
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimates, the cash limit for class XIV, vote 3, Department of Health, administration, miscel laneous health services and personal social services, England, will be increased by £20,246,000 (from £677,061,000 to £697,307,000) reflecting the following changes: an additional £24,000,000 for the cost of a grant to a voluntary organisation in respect of financial support to certain haemophiliacs who have become infected with HIV, partly offset by savings elsewhere in the vote; an extra £1,600,000 to meet the cost of updating family practitioner service computer data, fully offset by savings on class XIV, vote 1; £26,000 transferred from the Cabinet Office: Office of the Minister for the Civil Service, for expenditure on departmental administration in connection with senior management development training; and £20,000 transferred from class VII, vote 2, Department of Employment: employment programmes and central services, for expenditure on the Alcohol Concern 43W workplace advisory service. As a result of the changes on this vote, the Department's running costs limit is reduced by £1,897,000 from £246,156,000 to £244,259,000.
The net effect of these changes will be charged to the reserve.