§ Mr. MorganTo ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, pursuant to his answer of 16 December,Official Report, column 874, if he will publish in the Official Report a substantive answer to the question tabled by the hon. Member for Cardiff, West for answer on 16 December 1993 concerning the administrative expenditure of his Department.
§ Sir John WheelerThe information which I provided the hon. Member in a letter dated 11 January was as follows:
The 1994 departmental report on expenditure plans and priorities which is available in the Library, gives updated information on these matters.
- i. The provisional outturn from 1992–93 is £697 million.
- ii. The running costs limit for 1993–94 is £730 million (£707 million at 1992–93 prices). An estimated outturn will be published in the Spring in the "1994 Departmental Report and the Unified Budget Statement".