Departmental Expenditure Limits (Hansard, 16 January 2002)

HC Deb 16 January 2002 vol 378 c305W 305W

§ Mr. Bercow
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what his estimate is of the level of contingency reserves in(a) departmental expenditure limits and (b) annually managed expenditure in (i) 2002–03, (ii) 2003–04 and (iii) 2004–05. [26994]

§ Mr. Andrew Smith
The Government's latest view of the planned DEL Reserve and the forecast AME Margin are given in tables B16 and B13 respectively of the pre-Budget report (Cm 5318), up to the final year for which public spending plans have been published (2003–04).