Running Costs and Cash Limits

HC Deb 05 June 1996 vol 278 c478W

Mr. Nigel Evans

To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland if he will make a statement about the 1996–97 running costs limit for the Northern Ireland Office and Northern Ireland Departments. [31798]

Sir John Wheeler

The gross running cost limit for 1996–97 for the Northern Ireland Office and the Northern Ireland Departments is £787,695,000. Details of the provision for individual Northern Ireland Departments are set out in the Northern Ireland estimates published today and are available in the Library.