HC Deb 05 June 1996 vol 278 c498W
Mr. Spring

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport what proposals he has to change his Department's cash limits for 1996–97. [31923]

Sir George Young

Subject to parliamentary approval of the necessary revised estimate, the cash limit for class V, vote 5 will be amended as followsthe cash limit for class V, vote 5—roads and local transport—is reduced by £3,382,000 from £392,962,000 to £389,580,000. The reduction is one of a number of revisions to realign entries in the main estimates with the published local transport settlement.

The Department's local authority capital cash limit covering supplementary credit approvals for local authority spending on public transport programmes will be increased by £3,382,000 from £304,732,000 to £308,114,000, all of which is derived from the transfer from the transport supplementary grant, class V, vote 5.

The increase to the Department's local authority capital cash limit will not add to the planned total of public expenditure.