§ Mr. HaywardTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes he proposes to make to the cash limits for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys for 1991–92.
§ Mr. DorrellSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for class XIII, vote 6 (Office of Population Censuses and Surveys) will be increased by £263,000 from £95,807,000 to £96,070,000. This reflects an increase in running costs provision of £263,000 in respect of the end year flexibility arrangements for running costs expenditure (the increase of public expenditure will be charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planning total). Increases of £250,000 in the National Health Service central register area to reduce the backlog of transactions arising from computerisation of the national health service central register earlier this year: and £66,000 for additional and continuing work on medical statistics, and an increase in capital provision of £20,000 for work on morbidity will be matched by an increase in appropriations in aid on the OPCS vote. These latter amounts will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health (class XIII, vote 3).
§ Mr. HaywardTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes he proposes to make to the cash limits and running cost limit of his Department in 1991–92.
§ Mr. WaldegraveSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the following changes will be made.
The cash limits for class XIII vote 1 (Hospital, community health, family health services (part) and related services, England) will be decreased by £21,861,000 (from £16,520,699,000 to £16,498,838,000). This decrease allows for transfers to class XIII, vote 4 of £12,480,000 reflecting an increase in the NHS trusts' aggregate external financing limit and £8,214,000 following reapportionment of drug budgets; to class XIII. vote 3 of £2,000,000 for publicity in respect of deaths in infancy; £96,000 for the inquiry into still births and £24,000 for computer audit equipment; and to class XVI, vote 8 of £38,000 for the Cardiff school of occupational therapy. These reductions are partly offset by transfers from class XIII, vote 3 of £640,000 for valuation office services, £152,000 for inspection by the Medicines Control Agency; £128,000 for training purposes and £71,000 for the national external quality assessment scheme.
The cash limit for class XIII, vote 3 (Department of Health, administration, miscellaneous health services and personal social services, England) will be decreased by £1,716.000 (from £733,429,000 to £731,713,000). This reduction allows for transfers to class XIV, vote 4 of £819,000 for accommodation of the artificial eye service; to class XIII, vote 1 totalling £991,000 as mentioned above; to class XVIII, vote 1 of £65,000 for Chessington computer centre and to class XVI, vote 7 of £11,000 for inspections by the Medicines Control Agency. Savings totalling £2,000,000 are also made from departmental administration capital. These decreases are partly offset by transfers from class XIII, vote 1 of £2,120,000 as mentioned above; and from class XIV, vote 4 of £50,000 for the Departmental Records Office.
283WThe provision for running costs on class XIII, vote 3 and the Department's running cost limit is decreased by £15,000 from £252,921,000 to £252,906,000.