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Treasury

Answer

Mr. Malcolm Bruce: To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will publish an expanded version of table B4 of Cm 3804 to show (a) a disaggregation of the Control Total in each year by Department as in table 1.2 of Cm 3601, but adjusting for machinery of government and classification changes, and separately identifying releases from the Reserve for 1997-98 and 1998-99, (b) the use of windfall tax proceeds for uses other than Welfare to Work spending and (c) lottery-financed spending separately from other adjustments identified in the reconciliation of GGE(X) and GGE. [19266] Mr. Darling: [holding answer 8 December 1997]: The following table shows the figures for table B4, with the departmental elements of the Control Total and lottery-financed spending identified separately. Differences from previous plans, which are allocations from and benefits to the Reserve, are identified separately for 1997-98 and 1998-99. Further details on these changes are set out in the answer I gave today to the hon. Member for East Ham (Mr. Timms). Figures for spending financed by the windfall tax were set out in table 2.1 of the Financial Statement and Budget Report July 1997, HC85. Control total by department £ billion _________________________________________________________________________________________________. Plans Differences from previous plans{1} 1996-97 1997-98 1998-99 1997-98 1998-99 Defence 21.4 21.0 22.2 -0.2 -- Foreign Office 1.1 1.1 1.1 -- -- Department for 2.3 2.2 2.3 -- -- International Development Agriculture, Fisheries and 4.2 3.7 3.4 -- -- Food Trade and Industry 2.7 3.0 2.8 -0.1 -- Export Credits Guarantee -- -- -- -- -- Department DETR--Transport 4.8 5.2 4.6 -- -- DETR--Housing 5.9 5.1 5.6 -0.2 -- DETR--Urban and Environment 2.4 2.3 2.0 0.1 -- DETR--Local Government 31.3 31.4 32.8 -- 0.9 Home Office 6.5 6.9 6.9 -- -- Legal Departments 2.7 2.7 2.7 -- -- Education and Employment 14.5 14.1 13.4 0.2 -- Department for Culture, 1.0 0.9 0.9 -- -- Media and Sport Health 33.8 35.2 36.7 0.2 1.0 Social Security 77.0 80.1 83.9 0.2 0.9 Scotland 14.5 14.5 14.6 0.2 0.2 Wales 6.8 6.9 7.0 -- 0.1 Northern Ireland 8.0 8.2 8.3 -- 0.1 Chancellors' Departments 3.2 3.2 3.1 -- -- Cabinet Office 1.2 1.1 1.4 -- -- European Communities 1.7 1.8 2.4 -0.5 0.1 Local authority 12.7 13.1 13.6 -- -- self-financed expenditure Further EYF takeup -- 0.7 -- 0.7 -- Reserve -- 1.4 2.0 -0.9 -0.3 Control total 259.9 265.8 273.5 0 0 Welfare to Work spending -- 0.2 1.2 -- -- LA spending under the -- 0.2 0.7 -- -- capital receipts initiative Cyclical social security 14.0 12.7 13.5 -- -- Central government debt 22.0 24.6 25.0 -- -- interest Accounting adjustments 11.5 11.1 11.5 -- -- GGE(X) 307.3 314.6 325.4 -- -- Privatisation proceeds -4.4 -2.0 -- -- -- National Lottery 0.4 1.2 1.5 -- -- Other adjustments 4.9 4.9 5.1 -- -- GGE 308.1 318.7 332.1 -- -- _________________________________________________________________________________________________. {1} After adjusting plans published in the Public Expenditure Statistical Analyses, Cm 3601, for the effects of classification and transfer changes, including a switch of £530 million from the Department for Education and Employment to the DETR Local Government programme for Nursery Vouchers and a switch of £350 million from the DETR Local Government programme to the Department of Health for Community Care, both in 1998-99. There is a real terms income in overall provision for education in 1998-99.

Secondary information

Type

Written question

Reference

19266; 302 c562-4W

Session

1997-98

Subjects

Public expenditure Utilities Taxation Welfare to work