Cash Limits (Hansard, 8 June 1993)

§ Mr. Burns
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what changes are proposed to the cash and running costs limits for 1993–94 in respect of the office of HM Paymaster General.

§ Sir John Cope
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for the office of HM Paymaster General—class XVII, vote 13—will be increased by £1,532,000 to £4,400,000, and the running cost limit by £113,000 from £25,178,000 to £25,291,000. These increases reflect the costs of capital investment in equipment associated with the development of a replacement pensions computer systems; take account of the full cost element of the Paymaster General's depreciation expenses repayable as Consolidated Fund extra receipts; and provide for additional VAT payments to Customs and Excise. The increase will be charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.

§ Mr. Burns
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what changes are proposed in the cash and running cost limits for 1993–94 for the Inland Revenue.

§ Mr. Dorrell
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary revised estimate, the cash limit for class XVII, vote 6 will be reduced by £26,765,000 from £1,690,968,000 to £1,664,203,000. There is no change in the Department's running costs limit. The change in the cash limit arises from an increase in the charges paid by the Department of Social Security to the Inland Revenue in respect of the administration costs of collecting national insurance contributions.

§ Mr. Burns
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what changes are proposed to the Treasury's cash and running costs limits for 1993–94.

§ Mr. Nelson
Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for class XVII, vote 1 1993–94 will be increased by a net £450,000 from £76,017,000 to £76,467,000. The increase is mainly to meet publication costs of the retail and institutional guides to investing in gilts. These costs will be fully offset by a reduction in the Bank of England's non-voted cash limit and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
The running costs limit will be increased by £485,000 from £79,136,000 to £79,621,000 reflecting, in addition to the costs of publishing the gilts brochures, the transfer of staff and functions from the Department of Trade and Industry—class IV, vote 1—and to the Cabinet Office: Office of Public Service and Science—class XVIII, vote 1.