Treasury Reserve (Hansard, 24 May 1995)

§ Miss Lestor
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list all the occasions when the Treasury reserve was used in 1994–95; how much was drawn; and which Departments or Ministries were involved. [25734]

§ Mr. Aitken
Provisional outturn figures for public expenditure for 1994–95 will be published as described in the answer I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Southport (Mr. Banks) on 23 May. The information published will include revised plans and provisional outturn by Department, and the difference between these constitutes the net claim on the reserve. Because these are net figures which include offsets for underspending, it is not possible to break them down into individual claims.

§ Miss Lestor
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the occasions in the last five years when the Overseas Development Administration has had to draw on Treasury reserves. [25735]

§ Mr. Aitken
The ODA has drawn on the reserve 22 times in the past five years. The claims were agreed in the usual way on the occasions listed:

1990–91 Main Estimates

1990–91 Summer Estimates

1991–92 Winter Supplementary

1991–92 Main Estimates

1991–92 winter Supplementary

1991–92 Spring Supplementary

1992–93 Winter Supplementary

1993–94 Spring Supplementary

1994–95 Main Estimates

1994–95 Winter Supplementary

1994–95 Spring Supplementary

1995–96 Main Estimates