§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what new plans he has to introduce cuts and savings in his Department as a result of the effect on his Department's budgets for 1997–98 and 1998–99 of the upward revisions to the GDP deflators in the Budget on 2 July; and if he will make a statement. [8298]
§ Mr. Morley[holding answer 14 July 1997]: All Departments are reallocating spending within their Departmental ceilings as part of the Comprehensive Spending Review.
§ Mr. BruceTo ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if, following the recent Budget, he will give his estimate of the total real level of his Department's budget, in 1995–96 prices, in(a) 1997–98 and (b) 1998–99; if he will estimate what such figures were for (1) 1997–98 and (2) 1998–99 following the November 1996 Budget on the basis of the estimates of the GDP deflator contained in that Budget; and if he will make a statement. [8295]
§ Mr. MorleyThe figures requested for the Department's spending plans within the Control Total are as follows: £3,541 million, £3,149 million, £3,452 million and £3,201 million.