§ Mr. ThomasonTo ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes she proposes to the cash limits and running costs limits for the Office of Population Censuses and Surveys for 1994–95.
§ Mr. SackvilleSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for class XII, vote 6—Office of Population Censuses and Surveys—will be increased by £1,833,000 from £33,592,000 to £35,425,000 and the running costs limit by £1,515,000 from £48,991,000 to £50,506,000. This reflects the take up of £1,512,000 for running costs and £318,000 for capital under the end-year flexibility entitlements announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 14 July 1994,Official Report, columns 729-34. It also reflects a transfer of running costs provision of £3,000 from the Valuation Office for additional housing costs allowance and increased capital costs provision of £931,000 in the national health service central register for work on the Department of Health's existing number replacement project. The increase in capital costs will be met from within the existing resources of the Department of Health—class XII, vote 3—and will not add to the planned total of public expenditure.