§ Ms. MowlamTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer to the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mrs. Clwyd) of 4 June at column170, on cash limits, if he will set out the increase or decrease in his Department's budget, by expenditure area and in total, in 1991–92 in real terms relative to the expenditure level of the Department after the equivalent supplementary estimate announcement of 1990–91.
§ Mr. LilleyThe information requested is set out in the table.
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1990–91 provision 1991–92 provision cash terms 1991–92 provision real terms Increase/decrease in real (1990) terms Support for industry Industrial research (including Civil aircraft, Education and training, and Telecommunications), Space technology programmes and Miscellaneous support services 287.1 265.3 248.0 -39.2 International trade 50.2 51.7 48.4 -1.8 Statutory and regulatory work (including Measurement and technology support, Protection of innovation, Regulation of Trade and consumer protection and Research establishments) 74.3 116.2 108.6 34.3 Central and miscellaneous services 289.3 265.4 248.0 -41.2 Public corporations: English Industrial Estates Corporation2 (net of realised assets) 0.0 -16.8 -15.7 -15.7 Central government grants to local authorities: Inner cities initiative 0.5 0.5 0.5 0.0 Other expenditure not included in the planning total: Refund of pension adjustment 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 Total Vote 2 787.4 763.0 713.1 -74.3 VOTE 3 Public corporations: Nationalised industries external finance—British Shipbuilders 8.0 19.0 17.7 9.7 Total DTI 1,166.8 1,030.5 963.1 -203.7 1. The lower level of net provision in 1991–92 for airbus development reflects a considerably reduced requirement for launch aid for the A330/340 Airbus in accordance with the launch aid contract and an increased level of expected levy receipts on the A320 Airbus.
2. Planned gross expenditure by EIEC for 1991–92 is £126.3 million. This will be funded by asset sales. Surplus receipts—£16.8 million—will be surrendered to the DTI.
Notes to Tables: All figures are for estimates provision net of receipts, rounded to the nearest £0.1 million. The items do not sum to the totals in all cases because of rounding. The table compares the position after the publication on 12 June 1990 of the revised estimate for class IV vote 2 with that after the publication of the summer supplementary estimates for class IV votes 2 and 3 on 13 June 1991. The cash figures for 1991–92 have been converted to 1990–91 prices using the GDP deflator of 7 per cent., as set out in table 2.1 of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report 1991–92"—House of Commons No. 300.
§ Ms. MowlamTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry, pursuant to his answer of 4 June at column170, to the hon. Member for Colne Valley (Mr. Riddick) on cash limits, if he will provide details of the mechanism by which certain items are to be fully met by receipts from the European Community.
§ Mr. LilleySubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the European Community receipts in question will be appropriated in aid of class IV vote 2. For the purposes of the public expenditure planning total, such receipts are classified as programme 2.7—net payments to European Community institutions—for which my right hon. Friend the Chancellor of the Exchequer is responsible. The consequent net reduction in that programme exactly offsets the increase in my Department's cash limit.
§ Ms. MowlamTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry if he will set out in tabular form the areas of expenditure covered by the supplementary estimate changes to his Department's cash limit and running cost limits for 1991–92 announced on 4 June at column170 in ascending cash value order.
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§ Mr. LilleyThe information requested is set out, although not in ascending cash value order, in the summary to the summer supplementary estimate for class IV vote 2 which were presented to the House on 13 June.
§ Ms. MowlamTo ask the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry to which sections and sub-headings of the estimate for class IV, vote 2, each of the charges and activities described in his announcement of 4 June at column170 on cash limit changes will be attributed.
§ Mr. LilleyThe information requested is set out in the summer supplementary estimate for class IV vote 2 which was presented to the House on 13 June.