§ Mr. Peter ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment what proposals he has to change his Department's cash limits and running costs limit for 1993–94.
§ Mr. GummerSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the following changes will be made:
- (i) the cash limit for Class VII, Vote 5 (Central Environmental Services etc.) will be increased by £663,000 from £390,673,000 to £391,336,000. The increase provides for the transfer of responsibility for the Oslo Commission from MAFF to DoE, for additional resources for the Environmental Action Fund, for additional grant in aid for the United Kingdom Ecolabelling Board, for additional provision for Energy Efficiency, and for additional expenditure on the Environmental Protection research programme;
- (ii) the cash limit for Class VII, Vote 8 (Revenue Support Grant, payments of non-domestic rates, Valuation Office Services, etc., England) will be decreased by £54,000 from £28,808,833,000 to £28,808,779,000. This reflects the transfer of savings from the Valuation Tribunals subhead to Class VII, Vote 12, subhead D1: Emergency financial assistance to local authorities;
- (iii) The DoE/UA non-voted cash limit will be increased by £33,765,000 from £962,907,000 to £996,672,000. Capital End-Year Flexibility take up of £28,255,000 will fund Docklancls Light Railway, deferred Local Authority claims for City Challenge and other deferred claims for Derelict Land Grant. Increases totalling £47,814,000 are necessary to establish the Urban Regeneration Agency, to cover additional expenditure on the Manchester Olympic Bid and for Urban Development Corporations to carry out redevelopment and reclamation work.
These increases will be offset by savings, transfers, and retained PES and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.