HC Deb 31 October 1995 vol 265 cc203-4W
Mr. Mark Robinson

To ask the Secretary of State for Health what changes will be made to the cash limits of his Department in 1995–96. [41092]

Mr. Dorrell

The cash limit for class XII vote 1—hospital, community health, family health services and related services, England—will be increased by £3,129,000 from £26,536,835,000 to £26,539,964,000. This allows for an increase of £4,465,000 in respect of a transfer from class XII, vote 2—Department of Health, administration, miscellaneous health services and personal social services, England— for work on publicity campaigns, £2,986,000; for work of the Public Health Laboratory Service relating to immunoglobulin products, £810,000; and for the work of the Medical Devices Agency, £669,000. The overall increase is partially offset by £1,336,000 made up of transfers to class XIV, vote 12—hospital, community health, family health, part, and other health services, Scotland—for the work of the Prescription Pricing Authority, £840,000; and the London post-graduate teaching hospitals services, £246,000; and to class VII, vote 2—regeneration and countryside, England—for the urban programme, £250,000.

The cash limit for class XII, vote 2—Department of Health, administration, miscellaneous health services and personal social services, England—will be reduced by £4,570,000, from £1,283,948,000 to £1,279,378,000. This reduction allows for transfer of £4,465,000 to class XII, vote 1 as mentioned above and £105,000, running costs to class XIX, vote 3—Privy Council Office—for the central drug co-ordinating unit.

The non-voted cash limit for supplementary credit approvals for personal social services—DoH/LACAP—in England is to be increased by £1,305,000 from £26,700,000 to £28,005,000 in respect of the take-up of entitlement to carry forward of underspends from 1994–95 financial year under the end-year flexibility arrangements as announced by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury on 13 July 1995, Official Report, columns 776–82.

The Department's gross running cost limit will be reduced by £105,000 from £239,455,000 to £239,350,000 as mentioned above.

All increases will either be offset by savings, increased receipts or transfers to or from other votes or charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.