Departmental Expenditure Limits

HC Deb 13 June 2000 vol 351 c612W

Mr. Leslie

To ask the Parliamentary Secretary, Lord Chancellor's Department what proposals he has to amend the Lord Chancellor's Department's departmental expenditure limit for 2000–01. [126070]

Mr. Lock

Subject to Parliamentary approval of the necessary Supplementary Estimate for Class V, Vote 1, the Lord Chancellor's Department's Departmental Expenditure Limit for 2000–01 will be increased by £10,000,000 from£2,515,609,000 to £2,525,609,000. The increase is in respect of an award from the Capital Modernisation Fund for the "Crown Court Programme".

The increase will be offset by a transfer from the Capital Modernisation Fund and will not therefore add to the planned total of public expenditure.