HC Deb 15 June 1994 vol 244 c607W
Mr. Kynoch

To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he intends to make any changes to the cash limits for 1994–95 within his responsibility.

Mr. Lang

Yes. Subject to parliamentary approval I intend to make changes to two voted cash limits and in addition one of the non-voted cash blocks.

  1. (a) The cash limit for class XIV, vote 3, training programmes, roads and transport services and industrial support, Scotland, will be increased by £74,300,000 from £798,104,000 to £872,404,000. The increase comprises transfers of £70,000,000 from Department of Transport and £4,300,000 from Department of Trade and Industry.
  2. (b) The cash limit for class XIV, vote 9, revenue support grants and payments of non-domestic rates etc, Scotland will be decreased by £62,000 from £4,882,353,000 to £4,882,291,000 after an error was identified in a non-domestic rate income return submitted by a levying authority. The erroneous figure had been used when the Estimates were compiled but it was later corrected in the Revenue Support Grant (Scotland) Order 1994 laid before Parliament on 17 February 1994.
  3. (c) The non-voted cash limit SO/LA2, which covers housing capital expenditure by local authorities and capital expenditure by new towns will be decreased by £6,900,000 from £269,892,000 to £262,992,000. This decrease reflects a transfer of strategic investment sites from new towns to Scottish Enterprise. A compensatory increase was included in the main estimate for class XIV vote 3 for 1994–95.

None of these changes add to the total of public expenditure.