§ Barbara FollettTo ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether the Inland Revenue department's Vote on Account provision for 2002–03 will be sufficient to finance spending until Royal Assent to the Appropriation Act later this summer. [68862]
§ Dawn PrimaroloRoyal Assent to the Appropriation Act was given on 8 July. Prior to that point, the overall Vote on Account provision for the Inland Revenue Estimate was sufficient in terms of both resources and cash to finance spending until Royal Assent. However, the Valuation Office Agency's Request for Resources (RfR) 4 had consumed £500.000 more resources than anticipated in the Vote on Account because of a change in the profile of the liabilities.
254WThe increase in resources was offset by lower resource consumption on RfR1 enabling resource consumption on the Estimate as a whole to remain within the overall Vote on Account resource provision. The net cash requirement remained unchanged.
Vote on account provision £ Before After Change RfR1 1,006,990,000 1,006,490,000 -500,000 RfR2 — — — RfR3 93,600,000 93,600,000 — RfR4 14,045,000 14,545,000 500,000 Total 1,114,635,000 1,114,635,000 0