22 June 1999
SUMMER SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATES: 1999-2000
Revised Estimates, Summer Supplementary Estimates and one New Estimate taken together totalling an increase of £278 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, charged to the Departmental Expenditure Limits (DEL) Reserve or represent shifts against the Annually Managed Expenditure (AME) Margin. Since the Reserve and the Margin are part of Total Managed Expenditure, the planned total of public expenditure remains unchanged.
Within the overall increase noted there is a charge to the DEL Reserve of £10 million and a reduction of £0.1 million in the departmental programmes within AME.
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