106/98
25 June 1998
SUMMER SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES: 1998-99
Revised Estimates, Summer Supplementary Estimates and one New Estimate taken together totalling a reduction of £21 million were presented to the House of Commons today. They seek to transfer provision requested in Main Estimates between departments, to increase provision against receipts for existing services and finally seek Parliamentary authority, together with necessary provision, for certain new services.
These Estimates do not involve any change in total spending plans because any increases sought have either been offset by savings elsewhere in departmental programmes or charged to the Reserve. Since the Reserve is part of the control total, the planned total of public expenditure remains unchanged.
Within the overall reduction noted there is a charge to the Reserve of £6 million and increases of £15 million in cash limits and £13 million in running cost limits.