Cash Limits (Hansard, 6 February 1992)

§ Mr. Brooke

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, it is proposed that the cash limit for class 17 vote 1 (the Northern Ireland Office) will be increased by £11,236,000 from £773,396,000 to £784,632,000. This is principally to meet additional expenditure on compensation and police costs.

The cash limit for most Northern Ireland departmental services (NIDI) for 1991–92 will be decreased by £47,820,000 from £3,119,703,000 to £3,071,883,000. This decrease arises from the transfer to the Northern Ireland Office cash limit (NIO1) of £10,581,000, the transfer to the Northern Ireland independent living fund (NID2) of £726,000 and other technical changes of £36,513,000 (net), including transfers to non-cash limited areas within the Northern Ireland Departments and a surrender of cash limit cover as a result of repayment of loans.

The cash limit for the Northern Ireland independent living fund (NID2) for 1991–92 will be increased by £726,000 from £2,870,000 to £3,596,000. This increase arises from a revision in the assumptions on which payments from the fund are based.

The Running Cost Limit for Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments will be increased by £3,895,000 from £652,593,000 to £656,488,000 primarily reflecting the take-up of £1,199,000 of the end-year flexibility entitlement announced by the Chief Secretary to 225W the Treasury on 17 July 1991, Official Report, columns 235-40, and the transfer of £2,696,000 from the Department of Social Security in respect of services operated on an agency basis by the Department of Health and Social Services. The revised running cost provision is £162,315,000 for the Northern Ireland Office and £494,173,000 for Northern Ireland Departments.

The increase outlined above will not add to the planned total of public expenditure in Northern Ireland in 1991–92.