§ Sir Ivan LawrenceTo ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department what proposals he has for changes to the 1994–95 cash limits within his responsibilities and to the Home Office running costs limit.
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§ Mr. HowardSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for class VIII, vote 3—Home Office administration, immigration, probation and police support services, England and Wales—will be increased by £442,000 from £1,212,240,000 to £1,212,682,000. This will enable repayment of an advance from the contingencies fund of £800,000 for residual payments, which are not included in the public expenditure control total, in connection with the privatisation of the Directorate of Telecommunications: the amount required is reduced because of transfers totalling £358,000 out of the vote to other Government Departments. In consequence of these transfers, the Home Office gross running cost limit will be reduced by £358,000 from £1,706,534,000 to £1,706,176,000.
The local authority capital non-voted HO/LACAP cash limit will be increased by £421,000 from £121,870,000 to £122,291,000. The additional provision results from the transfer of supplementary credit approvals from the Welsh Office's non-voted cash limit WO/LACAP for the purpose of the replacement of fire service mobilisation and communications systems, to allow the Home Office to hold and issue the entire provision of fire supplementary credit approvals for both England and Wales. The increase will be offset by a transfer and will not therefore add to the planned total of expenditure.