§ Mr. SumbergTo ask the Prime Minister if there are any proposals to change the 1995–96 cash limit or running costs limit for the Cabinet Office: Other Service vote. [40635]
§ The Prime MinisterSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimate, the cash limit for the Cabinet Office: Other Services (class XIX, vote 1) will be increased by £2,999,000 from £37,749,000 to £40,748,000. At the same time the running costs limit will be increased by £2,772,000 from £40,895,000 to £43,667,000.
The increases reflect the residual transfer of running costs provision for central services previously funded by Her Majesty's Treasury: administration (class XVII, vote 1) (£272,000) following the machinery of government changes announced on 16 December 1994.
The vote is eligible for an increase of £2,747,000 in respect of end-year flexibility for running costs expenditure as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 15 July 1995, Official Report, columns 776–82. The supplementary estimate gives effect to £1,500,000 of this increase.
The vote is also eligible for a cash limit increase of £1,227,000 in respect of end year flexibility arrangements for capital expenditure as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 14 July 1995, Official Report, column 776–82. This supplementary estimate gives effect to the increase.
Some £1,000,000 will be transferred from capital into running costs.
All the increases are either offset by inter-departmental transfers or have been charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.