§ Ms HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to the answer of 12 May,Official Report, columns 232–34, what were the principal causes of the difference between the figure for expenditure by the Department of Social Security of £67,800 million in 1993–94 and the equivalent figure of £67,300 million published in table 5B.3 of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" 1994–95; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. HagueThe difference is caused by a spring supplementary estimate of £274 million plus a late year reapportionment of expenditure from cyclical to new control total.
§ Ms HarmanTo ask the Secretary of State for Social Security, pursuant to the answer of 12 May,Official Report, columns 232–34, if he will publish a table setting out the principal causes of the difference between the figure for cyclical social security expenditure of £14,400 million in 1993–94 compared with the equivalent figure of £14,000 million in table 5.2 of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report" 1994–95; and if he will make a statement.
§ Mr. HagueThe difference is caused by a spring supplementary estimate of £568 million minus a late year reapportionment of expenditure from cyclical to new control total.