§ Mr. PawseyTo ask the Secretary of State for Education and Employment what plans she has to announce changes to cash limits and running costs on votes within her responsibility for 1996–97. [31739]
§ Mrs. Gillian ShephardSubject to parliamentary approval of the necessary supplementary estimates, the cash limits for class IX, vote 1, Department for Education and Employment: programmes and central services; class IX. vote 3, Employment Service; class IX, vote 4, office of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools in England will be amended as follows:
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Class Vote Existing cash limit Change New cash limit IX 1 8,751,429,000 -6,484,000 8,744,945,000 IX 3 1,287,560,000 1,417,000 1,288,977,000 IX 4 117,600,000 5,067,000 122,667,000 The cash limit for class IX, vote 1 will be reduced by £6,484,000 from £8,751,429,000 to £8,744,945,000. This is as a result of transfers to Ofsted of £5,055,000 for work in connection with inspection of providers of under-fives education, and £12,000 for the inspection of careers education. An additional £1,500,000 has been transferred to the Employment Service to increase the provision for the access to work programme. This transfer has been partially offset by a transfer of £83,000 from the Employment Service in respect of salary costs of staff transferred from the Employment Service to the Department of Education and Employment.
The cash limit for class IX, vote 3 will be increased by £1,417,000 from £1,287,560,000 to £1,288,977,000. This is the result of a transfer of £1,500,000 from the Department for Education and Employment in respect of additional provision for the access to work programme, which is partially offset by a transfer of £83,000 to the Department for Education and Employment in respect of salary costs of staff transferred from the Employment Service to the Department for Education and Employment.
The running costs provision for class IX, vote 1 will be increased by £83,000 from £366,622,000 to £366,705,000 and the running costs provision for class IX, vote 3 will be decreased by £83,000 from £910,234,000 to £910,151,000. There is no change to the overall DfEE gross running costs limit.
The cash limit for class IX, vote 4 will be increased by £5,067,000 from £117,600,000 to £122,667,000. The running costs limit will be increased by £2,185,000 from £27,429,000 to £29,614,000. These increases are to enable Ofsted to undertake work in connection with the inspection of providers of under-fives education and the inspection of careers education. The increase in the cash limit will be offset by the reduction to the cash limit for class IX, vote 1 mentioned above.
The increases will be offset by savings elsewhere or charged to the reserve and will not therefore add to the total of planned public expenditure.