Cash Limits (Hansard, 4 February 1994)

§ Mr. Brooke

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the following changes will be made to the case limits within class XI:

(i) vote 1—museums and galleries—will be increased by £1,225,000 from £217,303,000 to £218,528,000 for additional provision to meet a payment to Inland Revenue in respect of an item accepted in satisfaction of tax. The increase will be charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.
(ii) vote 5—film, tourism, sport and broadcasting—will be increased by £220,000 from £130,108,000 to £130,328,000. This is the net result of additional administrative costs of £340,000 in the promotion of tourism, partly offset by extra appropriations in aid to the vote of £120,000 from compensation payments. The net increase is being met from savings on class XI, vote 7—DNH administration.
(iii) vote 6—Royal palaces, Historic Royal Palaces agency, Royal Parks agency, historic buildings, ancient monuments and the National Heritage—will be reduced by £169,000 from £194,252,000 to £194,083,000. This is the net result of a transfer of £500,000 to the Department of Transport and a reduction of £700,000 in respect of an overspend on the vote in the previous financial year, offset by receipts of £994,000 from VAT refunds and admission fees, transfers of £15,000 from the Chessington Computer Centre in respect of services now provided on a repayment basis, and £22,000 from Property Holdings to cover additional property maintenance charges.
(iv) vote 7—Department of National Heritage administration—will be reduced by £486,000 from £25,334,000 to £24,848,000. This is the net result of a transfer of £350,000 to the Office of the National Lottery and £220,000 for the promotion of tourism, partly offset by extra receipts of £46,000 from the sale of statistical information and a transfer from Property Holdings of £36,000 to the Department and of £2,000 to the Royal Fine Art Commission to cover additional property maintenance charges.
(v) Vote 8—Office of the National Lottery—will be increased by £350,000 from £1,501,000 to £1,851,000. The increase is the net result of additional provision of £1,270,000 for consultancy 995 and professional advice associated with the grant of the national lottery licence, partly offset by savings in other costs of £920,000. The net increase is being met from savings on class XI, vote 7—DNH administration.
(vi) In addition, the Department of National Heritage gross running costs limit will be reduced by £488,000 from £29,682,000 to £29,194,000. The gross running costs limit of the Office of the National Lottery will be reduced by £720,000 from £1,000,000 to £280,000.