§ Mr. Malcolm BruceTo ask the President of the Board of Trade what new plans she has to introduce cuts and savings in her Department as a result of the effect on her Department's budgets for 1997–98 and 1998–99 of the upward revisions to the gross domestic product deflators in the Budget on 2 July; and if she will make a statement. [8297]
§ Mrs. Beckett[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 President of the Board of Trade if, following the recent Budget, she will give her estimate of the total real level of her Department's budget, in 1995–96 prices, in(a) 1997–98 and (b) 1998–99; if she 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 she will make a statement. [8296]
§ Mrs. Beckett[holding answer 14 July 1997]: The figures requested for my Department's spending plans within the control total, and those of other bodies shown within the trade and industry section of the "Financial Statement and Budget Report", are as follows:
660W
£million FSBR July 1997: REAL 1995–96 prices FSBR November 1996: REAL 1995–96 prices 1997–98 1998–99 1997–98 1998–99 DTI— Programme 2,865 2,768 2,885 2,813 Offer 13 11 13 11 Ofgas 8 6 8 6 Oftel 10 9 10 9 OFT 19 18 19 19 DTI— Nationalised Industries -18 -163 -19 -165 ECGD 9 1 9 1 The figures for 1997–98 have not been adjusted to take account of the summer supplementary estimates presented to Parliament on 8 July but not yet approved.