Appropriation Act 1997

1997 Chapter 31

Apply a sum out of the Consolidated Fund to the service of the year ending on 31st March 1998; to appropriate the supplies granted in this Session of Parliament; and to repeal certain Consolidated Fund and Appropriation Acts.

[21st March 1997]

Most Gracious Sovereign,

WE, Your Majesty’s most dutiful and loyal subjects, the Commons of the United Kingdom in Parliament assembled, towards making good the supply which we have cheerfully granted to Your Majesty in this Session of Parliament, have resolved to grant unto Your Majesty the sums hereinafter mentioned; and do therefore most humbly beseech Your Majesty that it may be enacted, and be it enacted by the Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows:—

Grant out of the Consolidated Fund

1Issue out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 1998

The Treasury may issue out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom and apply towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty for the service of the year ending on 31st March 1998 the sum of £115,536,748,000.

Appropriation of Grants

2Appropriation of sums voted for supply services

All sums granted by this Act and the other Acts mentioned in Schedule (A) annexed to this Act out of the said Consolidated Fund towards making good the supply granted to Her Majesty amounting, as appears by the said schedule, in the aggregate, to the sum of £216,592,951,760.90 are appropriated, and shall be deemed to have been appropriated as from the date of the passing of the Acts mentioned in the said Schedule (A), for the services and purposes expressed in Schedule (B) annexed hereto.

The abstract of schedules and schedules annexed hereto, with the notes (if any) to such schedules, shall be deemed to be part of this Act in the same manner as if they had been contained in the body thereof.

In addition to the said sums granted out of the Consolidated Fund, there may be applied out of any money directed, under section 2 of the [1891 c. 24.] Public Accounts and Charges Act 1891, to be applied as appropriations in aid of the grants for the services and purposes specified in Schedule (B) annexed hereto the sums respectively set forth in the last column of the said schedule.

3Repeals

The enactments mentioned in Schedule (C) annexed to this Act are hereby repealed.

4Short title

This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act 1997.

ABSTRACT OF SCHEDULES (A) and (B) to which this Act refers

SCHEDULE (A)

Section 2.

Grants out of the Consolidated Fund

£216,592,951,760.90

SCHEDULE (B).—Appropriation of Grants

Section 2.

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1995-96 and 1996-97

Part 1. Defence and Civil (Excesses), 1995-96

215,096,760.90

2,550,978.59

Part 2. Supplementary, 1996-97

3,979,445,000.00

650,150,000.00

1997–98

Part 3. Class I

22,200,297,000

3,317,129,000

Part 4. Class II

2,830,449,000

208,126,000

Part 5. Class III

1,118,975,000

3,408,132,000

Part 6. Class IV

3,042,025,000

917,455,000

Part 7. Class V

4,946,859,000

258,407,000

Part 8. Class VI

39,379,349,000

108,027,000

Part 9. Class VII

6,819,904,000

148,601,000

Part 10. Class VIII

2,642,251,000

402,472,000

Part 11. Class IX

15,120,852,000

5,020,433,000

Part 12. Class X

2,874,198,000

46,078,000

Part 13. Class XI

32,186,678,000

8,649,741,000

Part 14. Class XII

50,983,684,000

2,229,275,000

Part 15. Class XIII

13,172,910,000

1,328,498,000

Part 16. Class XIV

6,244,455,000

378,250,000

Part 17. Class XV

2,942,922,000

9,912,000

Part 18. Class XVI

3,091,539,000

960,679,000

Part 19. Class XVII

1,603,769,000

1,425,910,000

Part 20. Class XVIII

898,807,000

11,878,000

Part 21. Class XVIII,A

189,787,000

1,760,000

Part 22. Class XVIII,B

38,700,000

7,800,000

Total

£212,398,410,000

£28,838,563,000

Grand Total

£216,592,951,760.90

£29,491,263,978.59

SCHEDULE (A)Grants out of the Consolidated Fund

£

For the service of the year ended 31st March 1996—

Under Act 1997 c. 15

215,096,760.90

For the service of the year ended 31st March 1997—

Under Act 1996 c. 60

2,424,973,000

Under Act 1997 c. 15

1,554,472,000

For the service of the year ending on 31st March 1998—

Under Act 1996 c. 60

96,861,662,000

Under this Act

115,536,748,000

Total

216,592,951,760.90

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 1Defence and Civil (Excesses), 1995–96

Defence and Civil (Excesses), 1995–96

Sums granted, and sums which may be applied as appropriations in addition thereto, to make good excesses on certain grants for defence and civil services, for the year ended 31st March 1996, viz:—

Supply Grants

Surplus receipts available to be applied as Appropriations in Aid

£

£

CLASS I

1. Defence: operational and support costs

28,217,019.98

CLASS IV

10. Office of Gas Supply

1,000.00

155,383.78

CLASS VII

6. Office of Water Services

212,054.73

18,273.46

CLASS XIII

1. Central Government administered social security benefits and other payments

183,043,307.47

1,648,744.79

CLASS XIV

13. Teachers’ superannuation (Scotland)

1,000.00

528,277.44

CLASS XVII

7. Inland Revenue: Valuation Office (Executive Agency): contributions in lieu of rates

3,621,378.72

13. Government Actuary’s Department

1,000.00

200,299.12

Total, Civil (Excesses), 1995–96

215,096,760.90

2,550,978.59

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 2Supplementary, 1996–97

Supplementary, 1996–97

Schedule of Supplementary Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges for the Services herein particularly mentioned, for the year ended 31st March 1997, viz.:—

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

Class I

1. For expenditure by the Ministry of Defence on personnel costs, etc of the armed forces and their reserves and cadet forces etc; personnel costs etc of Defence Ministers and of certain civilian staff employed by the Ministry of Defence; movements, stores, supplies and services; spares and maintenance; plant and machinery; charter of ships; research; lands and buildings; works services; contingent liabilities; services provided by other Government departments; sundry services, subscriptions, grants and other payments, including those abroad including assistance to foreign and Commonwealth governments for defence related purposes; set-up costs, loans and funding to trading funds.

2,000

262,203,000

2. For expenditure by the Ministry of Defence on logistics services for the armed forces and the related personnel costs; spares, repair, maintenance, stores and supply services; associated capital facilities and works; contractors’ redundancy costs; services provided by other Government departments; sundry services, subscriptions and grants; and set-up costs, loans and funding to trading funds.

67,112,000

53,003,000

3. For expenditure by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence in operating its headquarters and establishments and for its other common services; research, etc by contract; procurement including development and production of equipment and weapon systems for the three armed forces; purchases for sale abroad; contingent liabilities; sundry other procurement services including those on repayment terms; and loans and funding to trading funds.

314,056,000

60,979,000

4. For expenditure by the Ministry of Defence on retired pay, pensions and other payments, etc.

16,728,000

9,835,000

Class II

1. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on its salaries, building and other accommodation services, and administration, and those of HM Diplomatic Service; Official Information services; sundry services; and loans and payments in connection with catering services.

8,349,000

106,000

2. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on grants and subscriptions etc to certain international organisations; contributions in respect of international peace-keeping; special payments and assistance; scholarships; military aid; and sundry other grants and services.

20,203,000

48,656,000

3. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on payments to the British Broadcasting Corporation for external radio broadcasting and monitoring services and contractual services in connection with FCO relay stations.

2,465,000

4. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the British Council.

4,237,000

5. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Overseas Development Administration under the Overseas Development and Co-operation Act 1980 on the United Kingdom overseas aid, including financial and technical assistance to governments, institutions, voluntary agencies and individuals; capital and other subscriptions and contributions, including payments under guarantee, to multilateral development banks and other international and regional bodies; emergency refugee and other relief assistance; pensions and allowances in respect of overseas service including contributions to pension funds (including payments under the Overseas Pensions Act 1973 and grants in lieu of pensions); global environment assistance; loans to the Commonwealth Development Corporation under the Commonwealth Development Corporation Acts 1978–1995; expenditure on the Turkey Ankara Metro mixed credit Aid and Trade provision project; payments to Crown Agents under the authority of the Crown Agents Act 1995; costs in connection with privatising the Crown Agents and the Natural Resources Institute; running costs, related capital expenditure and other administrative costs including for the Natural Resources Institute (an executive agency); and payments (under the authority of the European Communities Act 1972) to certain beneficiaries of the Gibraltar Social Insurance Fund.

30,571,000

Class III

1. For expenditure by the Intervention Board—Executive Agency in giving effect in the United Kingdom to the agricultural support provisions of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Community; other services including BSE emergency measures; the introduction of the Selective Cull; and for central administration and payments for agents’ services.

434,519,000

*−115,891,000

2. For expenditure by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on operational expenditure; agencies and departmental administration; support for the rendering and slaughtering industries; payments under the Feed Product Recall Scheme and costs associated with the Beef Marketing Payment Schemes, Over Thirty Month Scheme, Accelerated Slaughter Programme and Certified Herds Scheme; to promote food safety; take action against diseases with implications for human health; safeguard essential supplies in an emergency and promote action to alleviate flooding and coastal erosion; to encourage action to reduce water and other pollution and by other measures to safeguard the aquatic environment including its fauna and flora; improve the attractiveness and bio-diversity of the rural environment and protect the rural economy; to implement MAFF’s CAP obligations efficiently and seek a more economically rational CAP while avoiding discrimination against UK businesses (including expenditure on existing CAP measures and schemes); create the conditions in which efficient and sustainable agriculture, fishing and food industries can flourish; take action against animal and plant diseases and pests; encourage high animal welfare standards; provide specialist support services, allocate resources where they are most needed, manage and develop staff; to undertake research and development; and to provide for the expenditure of the Ministry’s executive agencies.

5,058,000

*−16,184,000

Class IV

1. For expenditure by the Department of Trade and Industry on support for business; research and development; consumer protection and the regulation of trade; improvement of industrial relations; payment towards the expenses of the Office of Manpower Economics and trade union ballots; regional and selective assistance; the aerospace and shipbuilding industries; exchange risk and other losses; international subscriptions; energy-related programmes including research and development and security of oil and gas supplies; assistance to redundant steel workers; departmental administration including the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service grant-in-aid, support for industrial tribunals, a share of the running costs of the Government Offices for the Regions and the disaster recovery costs in respect of the Radiocommunications Agency’s headquarters facilities; central and miscellaneous services; the operational costs of departmental executive agencies; privatisation expenses; loans to trading funds; petroleum licensing and royalty; provision of land and buildings; and loans, grants and other payments.

18,364,000

*−4,491,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of Trade and Industry on payments to the science Research Councils, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering; OST initiatives; fees payable under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986; and Research Council pensions.

6,735,000

*−8,850,000

3. For payment of pensions etc. to members of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority’s superannuation schemes and other related expenditure.

59,000,000

9,000,000

8. For expenditure by the Export Credits Guarantee Department in connection with interest support to banks and other lenders of export finance; cover under the tender to contract/forward exchange supplement scheme; grants towards financing of exports to match foreign competition; residual commitments under discontinued guarantees offered to banks and external trade agencies; and cost escalation.

17,160,000

77,000

10. For expenditure by the Office of Fair Trading on administrative and operational costs.

254,000

11. For expenditure by the Office of Telecommunications on administrative and operational costs.

1,268,000

12. For expenditure by the Office of Gas Supply on administrative and capital costs.

2,500,000

13. For expenditure by the Office of Electricity Regulation on administration and operational costs.

4,150,000

Class V

1. For expenditure by the Department of Transport’s Highways Agency on the construction, improvement, maintenance and management of motorways and trunk roads, including the acquisition of land, publicity, scheme design and preparation, archaeological survey and rescue work, compensation; administration; and research and development in support of Highways Agency operations.

22,327,000

25,750,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of Transport on Central Transport Group administration; Government Office administration; miscellaneous services; shipping services; civil aviation services; international aviation services; transport security; freight grants; land transport research and development; residual expenses associated with the privatisation of transport industries and expenses associated with the sale of the Trust Ports and Transport Research Laboratory Agency.

25,869,000

100,000

3. For expenditure by the Department of Transport on support to nationalised transport industries; grants to Railtrack, European Passenger Services, Union Railways, DOA Ltd; payments in respect of the transfer of European Passenger Services and Union Railways to the private sector; expenditure connected with the privatisation of British Rail businesses and Railtrack; payment in respect of other rail consultancies costs; capital expenditure by transport industries funded by EC grants; payment for European regional development funds in advance and in place of EC receipts; railway industry and National Freight Company Pension Funds; Royal travel; audit of Government grants; and rebate of fuel duty to bus operators.

98,810,000

288,000

4. For expenditure by the Department of Transport in connection with driver and vehicle registration and licensing, the collection of revenue, compensation and payments towards the pension of Local Authority staff employed on driver and vehicle licensing before the setting up of DVLC; and the development and operations of other systems associated with registration and licensing, the provision of anonymised data and the provision of miscellaneous services to other parts of the department.

2,125,000

3,316,000

5. For expenditure by the Department of Transport on grants and consultancies for roads and local transport; Central Transport Group services and consultancies for national roads; priority routes in London; Government Office programme expenditure; maintenance and operation of the Woolwich Ferry; vehicle and traffic enforcement; publicity; statistics, censuses and surveys; Trans European network payments; transport supplementary grants to highway authorities in England; public transport facilities grants; grants to highway authorities and developers under the Industrial Development Act; special grants to passenger transport authorities for the additional costs of supporting rail services resulting from the restructuring of the railways; agency payments on behalf of the European Community; payments for European Community projects not pre-funded by European Community receipts; licence fee refunds to goods vehicle and public service vehicle operators and drivers; and grants to the Humber Bridge Board.

2,459,000

200,000

6. For expenditure by the Department of Transport on the Marine Safety, Coastguard, Vehicle Certification and Driving Standards agencies; loans to the Vehicle Inspectorate; and payments to the Meteorological Office trading fund.

18,815,000

7. For expenditure by the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising on the franchising of passenger rail services; the provision of, and support for, passenger rail services; the formation and financing of companies formed to facilitate the Franchising Director’s functions; and administration and miscellaneous services.

202,329,000

42,853,000

Class VI

1. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on Housing Revenue Account Subsidy; slum clearance, repairs and other improvements to private housing; payments to the Housing Corporation; the transfer of local authority estates to new landlords; accommodation for the homeless and special needs accommodation; housing management and mobility; rent officers and Rent Assessment Panels; grants for the provision of gypsy sites; grants to home improvement agencies; for research projects, including European Community programmes; publicity; and sundry other housing and construction services and projects.

222,375,000

1,771,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on Single Regeneration Budget payments to support urban and other regeneration; payments to Dearne Valley College; countryside and wildlife payments; grants to voluntary bodies; European Community (EC) agency payments; EC regeneration payments not prefunded by EC receipts; central government grants to local authorities for the Single Regeneration Budget; National Parks; countryside and wildlife and publicity payments related to the promotion of the Department’s regeneration and countryside policies and programmes; and the private finance initiative.

35,725,000

*−1,904,000

3. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on the environment, including research, long term monitoring and surveys; environmental technology and support to the environmental protection industry; support for measures to improve energy efficiency and environmental practice; support for measures which improve local environmental quality; support for the aims and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity; support for the Tidy Britain Group and the National Environmental Technology Centre; smoke control and other improvements in air quality; environmental (including energy efficiency) publicity, promotion and awareness, including support for measures to promote sustainable development; the measurement of radon in premises; grant-in-aid to the Environment Agency, British Waterways Board and UK Ecolabelling Board; water supply and sewerage services including civil defence; the Wash Estuary Trial Bank; grants to voluntary bodies; subscriptions and contributions to international organisations; planning redevelopment; residual services in connection with the privatisation of the water supply industry; compensation for persons disabled by certain industrial diseases; and advice and awareness on handling of health issues which arise in the work place.

5,351,000

4. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on payment of revenue support grant and redistributed non-domestic rates to receiving authorities in England; payments to specified bodies and the Commission for Local Administration in England; payments for Valuation Office Agency rating and valuation services; payments to meet the expenses of valuation tribunals; grant in aid to the Local Government Commission and to the Local Government Residuary Body; residual payments of community charge grant, on payments under the council tax transitional reduction scheme; payments of rate rebate grants; emergency financial assistance to local authorities, including payments under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 to authorities affected by terrorism; repayments of excess contributions made by local authorities and other bodies in respect of non-domestic rates in 1995–96 and previous years; and local government minerals and planning research, including contributions to the Local Government Management Board.

1,881,000

5. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment and its agencies on administration including research, royal commissioners, committees, etc; by the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency on appeals; by the Building Research Establishment Executive Agency on building research and surveys; a grant in aid to the Health and Safety Commission; the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Executive Agency; Allied Services buildings; the residual functions of PSA Services; the privatisation costs of the Building Research Establishment Executive Agency; and the costs of the sale of Housing Corporation loan portfolio.

16,814,000

*−3,642,000

6. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on the sale of the PSA Services businesses

1,000

409,000

7. For expenditure by the Office of Water Services on administrative and operational costs and the provision of customer representation.

434,000

8. For expenditure by Ordnance Survey in the survey of Great Britain and other mapping services.

5,305,000

Class VII

1. For expenditure by the Home Office on police (including the promotion of equipment exports); the Forensic Science Service; emergency planning; fire services; the Fire Service College; criminal policy and programmes including administration of justice, offender programmes, diversion from custody, prevention of drug abuse, other services related to crime; research; criminal injuries compensation; international and organised crime; control of immigration and nationality, issue of passports, etc; community, constitutional, equal opportunities and general services; and administration (excluding the provision for prisons administration carried on Class VII, Vote 2).

2,000

3,957,000

2. For expenditure by the Home Office in England and Wales on prisons (including central administration and other costs arising from the detention of prisoners); placements in secure accommodation under section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933; Prison Service colleges; the Parole Board; the storage and maintenance of equipment; transport management; and grants to “Prisoners Abroad”.

120,646,000

3. For expenditure by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on administrative costs.

695,000

Class VIII

1. For expenditure by the Lord Chancellor’s Department on the Lord Chancellor’s Department HQ and Associated Offices; payments in support of marriage guidance, conciliation and mediation; the Court Service; the Public Trust Office; legal aid in criminal cases; grants to the Legal Aid Fund; costs paid from central funds; the magistrates’ courts; and other legal services.

40,000,000

2. For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Court Service on court services, other legal services, accommodation services and legal aid.

6,432,000

500,000

3. For expenditure by the Public Record Office on operational costs.

1,035,000

1,079,000

4. For expenditure by the Crown Prosecution Service on administrative costs, including the hire of private prosecuting agents; Crown prosecutions; and in connection with the confiscation of the proceeds of crime.

12,000,000

5. For expenditure by the Serious Fraud Office on administration, investigation and prosecution costs.

300,000

6. For expenditure by the Department of the Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, the Treasury Solicitor’s Department Agency, the Government Property Lawyers’ Agency, and the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers on administration, and on costs and fees for legal and related services.

1,000

17,819,000

7. For expenditure by the Crown Office and Lord Advocate’s Department on administrative costs, including fees paid to temporary Procurators Fiscal, and on witnesses expenses and other costs associated with Crown prosecutions.

2,300,000

Class IX

1. For expenditure by the Department for Education and Employment on grant-maintained schools and schools conducted by Education Associations; voluntary and special schools; the Assisted Places Scheme; the provision of education for under-fives; City Colleges and other specialist schools; music and ballet schools; direct grant schools; the school curriculum and its assessment; the youth service and other educational services and initiatives; careers guidance and services; payments for or in connection with teacher training; higher and further education provision and initiatives; loans to students, student awards and other student grants and their administration; the payment of access funds; reimbursement of fees for qualifying European Union students; compensation payments to teachers and staff of certain institutions; expenditure on other central government grants to local authorities; the provision of training and assessment programmes for young people and adults; initiatives to improve training and qualifications arrangements; the promotion of enterprise and the encouragement of self employment; payments for education, training and employment projects assisted by the European Union on help for unemployed people; the promotion of equal opportunities and co-ordination of certain issues of particular importance to women; the payment of certain fees to the Home Office Department’s own administration and research and that of Capita; information and publicity services; and expenditure via Training and Enterprise Councils and amounts retained by them as surpluses and spent by them on training and other initiatives within their articles and memoranda of association.

17,682,000

*−30,349,000

2. For expenditure by the Department for Education and Employment on superannuation allowances and gratuities, etc, in respect of teachers and the widows, widowers, children and dependants of deceased teachers; and for premature retirement compensation payments made to members of the Teachers’ Superannuation Scheme on behalf of their employers.

97,001,000

20,631,000

Class X

1. For expenditure by the Department of National Heritage on payments in the support of national and other museums and galleries; for the Government Indemnity Scheme; to the Inland Revenue for assets accepted in lieu of tax; in the support of the British Library and other library institutions and services; to the Arts and Sports Councils and for other arts and sports bodies and schemes; to Royal Palaces and Parks; to the Royal Armouries; for historic buildings, ancient monuments, certain public buildings and the national heritage; for the promotion of tourism and European Regional Development Fund projects; to film bodies and projects; to the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority and for certain broadcasting services and schemes including the expenses on the privatisation of the BBC’s transmission services; for related research, surveys and other services; for central administration costs; for voluntary services; and for commemorative services.

16,519,000

9,370,000

Class XI

1. For expenditure by the Department of Health on hospital, community health, family health and related services.

248,762,000

193,781,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of Health on administration, including certain expenditure on behalf of the Department of Social Security and the National Health Service in England; on miscellaneous health, personal social and other services (some of which are administered on a United Kingdom basis), including medical, scientific and technical services, services for disabled persons, grants to voluntary organisations, medical treatment given to people from the United Kingdom in other countries of the European Economic Area and on welfare food; payments in respect of Home Office inspection of laboratories services; grants in aid; and subscriptions to international organisations.

1,000

*−222,000

Class XII

1. For expenditure by the Department of Social Security on non-contributory retirement pensions; Christmas bonus payments to pensioners; pensions etc, for disablement or death arising out of war, or service in the armed forces after 2 September 1939 and on sundry other services, including pension and other payments in respect of service in the armed forces at other times; attendance allowances; invalid care allowance; severe disablement allowance; disability living allowance; disability working allowance; pensions, gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes; income support; payments of spousal and child maintenance; child benefit; one-parent benefit; family credit; the vaccine damage payment scheme; earnings top up pilot; jobseeker’s allowance (contribution based); jobseeker’s allowance (income based); and on back to work bonus.

955,300,000

11,000,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of Social Security on rent rebate, rent allowance, council tax benefit, community charge benefit, community charge rebate and rate rebate subsidies to housing, billing, levying and local authorities, on subsidies towards their costs incurred in administering the housing benefit and/or council tax benefit schemes and on sums payable in respect of anti-fraud measures; on sums payable to the National Insurance Fund to increase its income and on compensation payments in respect of statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay and the national insurance contribution holiday scheme; on sums payable into the Social Fund for expenditure on maternity expenses, funeral expenses, and heating expenses in exceptionally cold weather, and to finance budgeting loans; crisis loans and community care grants; on sums payable to Independent Living, as grants to Motability towards their administrative costs and to enable them to assist invalid vehicle users and others to have adapted and/or to purchase or lease cars from them and as grants to the British Limbless ex-Servicemen’s Association to enable them to assist certain other disabled vehicle users have cars adapted.

149,670,000

3. For expenditure by the Department of Social Security on administration; for agency payments; the promotion of Government policy on disability issues; measures to help lone parents into work; and for certain other services including grants to local authorities and voluntary organisations and other organisations.

62,373,000

*−11,008,000

Class XIII

1. For expenditure by the Scottish Office Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Department on market support, support for agriculture in special areas including crofting communities, structural measures (including agri-environmental measures), compensation to sheep producers, animal health, agricultural education services, advisory services, research and development services, botanical and scientific services, assistance to production, marketing and processing, administration, land management, other agricultural services, assistance to the Scottish fishing industry, fishery protection, certain other services including fisheries research and development and special services, domestic sewerage relief grant, natural heritage, environment protection, rural affairs, flood and coastal protection and other water grants including capitalisation of rural water supply grant.

7,634,000

2. For expenditure by the Scottish Office Development Department on revenue support grants and payment of non-domestic rates in Scotland; special grants relating to council tax; rate rebate grants; housing subsidies, financial support for Scottish Homes, other expenditure, contributions and grants relating to housing; historic buildings and monuments (including administration); other central and environmental services including flood and storm emergencies, special financial assistance for Dunblane, sites for travelling people and residual grants to housing associations; roads and certain associated services, including the acquisition of land, lighting, road safety, work on roads on behalf of the Department of Transport and related services; assistance to local transport; support for transport services in the highlands and islands; piers and harbours; certain other transport services and grants; grants to new town development corporations in connection with housing and other services on the urban programme; other urban regeneration initiatives; expenses connected with the new towns wind up; redemption of new towns National Loans Fund debt; expenditure relating to the privatisation of the Scottish Bus Group and Highlands and Islands Airports Limited; other sundry services in connection with the environment; and European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund grants to public corporations, non-departmental public bodies, local authorities and other bodies and organisations.

52,349,000

5,287,000

3. For expenditure by the Scottish Office Education and Industry Department on schools; higher education and research, including the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council; the Student Awards Agency for Scotland; further education, including payments to further education colleges; curriculum development; international and other educational services, including the careers service; sport; Gaelic broadcasting; arts, libraries, museums and galleries, including purchase grants; cultural activities and organisations; publicity; indemnities; administration; central government grants to local authorities; Scottish Enterprise and Highlands and Islands Enterprise; regional selective assistance and regional enterprise grants; promotion of tourism; innovation and technology support; technical and vocational education; the privatisation of Scottish Nuclear Ltd and the electricity industry; sundry services in connection with trade and industry etc; teachers and National Health Service etc superannuation schemes on pensions, allowances, gratuities, etc in respect of teachers, and the widows, widowers and dependants of deceased teachers, to or in respect of persons engaged in Health Service or in other approved employments, and payment of pension and premature retirement compensation where National Health Service employers have capitalised future commitments, administered by the Scottish Office Pensions Agency, including running and capital costs of the Scottish Office Pensions Agency.

29,441,000

6,020,000

4. For expenditure by the Scottish Office Department of Health on hospital and community health services, including National Health Service trusts; family health services; welfare food; the Scottish Drug Challenge Fund; and other services provided under the National Health Service in Scotland.

70,312,000

14,157,000

5. For expenditure by the Scottish Office Home Department on legal aid (including administration); Criminal Injuries Compensation (including administration); certain services relating to crime including Parole Board for Scotland; the Scottish Prison Service (an executive agency); the Scottish Prisons Complaints Commission; Police services (including grants) to local authorities and superannuation of police on secondment; Fire services (including Scottish Fire Service Training School and superannuation); Civil Defence (including grants) and miscellaneous services including costs arising from the judicial inquiry into the Dunblane incident; social work services, including the Scottish Children’s Reporter Administration, and the provision of residential and secure accommodation for children; services for offenders including probation and supervised attendance orders; grants to voluntary organisations; training and research; unemployed voluntary action fund; grants for ethnic minority groups and other grants to local authorities.

5,063,000

72,000

6. For expenditure by the Scottish Office on administrative costs and operational costs, and on the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.

8,382,000

7. For expenditure by the General Register Office for Scotland on administrative and operational costs.

93,000

8. For expenditure by the Scottish Record Office on administrative costs, acquiring record material, construction and associated costs of a new purpose-built repository, conservation grants to local archives and a grant to the Business Archives Council of Scotland.

1,359,000

9. For expenditure by the Scottish Courts Administration and the Scottish Court Service on court services, the Scottish Law Commission, certain legal services and costs and fees in connection with legal proceedings.

1,875,000

10. For payments to the Forestry Fund.

1,000

359,000

Class XIV

2. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on regional assistance; Welsh Development Agency; Development Board for Rural Wales; exchange risk guarantees; other industry expenditure; housing subsidy to the Development Board for Rural Wales; the Teaching Company Scheme; expenditure via Training and Enterprise Councils and amounts retained by them as surpluses on training, including the provision of training programmes for young people and adults; initiatives and programmes within education; the promotion of enterprise and encouragement of self-employed and small firms; help for unemployed people; on Careers Service; publicity and research; education (including the Further Education Funding Council for Wales and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales); and certain other services and expenses.

14,906,000

*−7,842,000

3. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on arts; libraries; museums; roads and transport and certain associated services; housing, including the commutation of loan charge grants to local authorities; historic buildings and ancient monuments; Cadw Agency; other environmental services (including tourism, civil defence, national parks, Planning Inspectorate Agency and certain payments related to EU matters); health and personal social services and related Inquiry expenditure; European Regional Development Fund; Welsh Office administration; TEC management fees; and other grants and services, including research.

13,189,000

1,505,000

4. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on hospital, community health, family health services including administration, National Health Service trusts and on other health services (part).

48,207,000

8,051,000

6. For expenditure by the Office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales on inspections, publicity, training, teachers’ short courses and conferences, administration and associated capital, etc.

157,000

Class XV

1. For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Office on central and miscellaneous services; elections to a forum and associated administrative costs; political talks administration; forensic services; services related to crime, including police, prisons, criminal justice, training schools, probation and after-care, etc; compensation schemes; Crown prosecutions and other legal services; European Union peace and reconciliation projects; and certain other grants.

46,216,000

1,301,000

2. For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Office on a grant-in-aid to the Northern Ireland Consolidated Fund and other transfers.

170,000,000

Class XVI

2. For expenditure by Her Majesty’s Treasury in connection with the manufacture, storage and distribution of coinage for use in the United Kingdom.

3,000,000

7,500,000

3. For expenditure by the Customs and Excise Department on the administration of taxation; the operation of customs and revenue controls and other customs and excise work; and payments in respect of the Customs and Excise National Museum.

23,050,000

7,000

4. For expenditure by the Inland Revenue Department on the management and collection of the direct taxes and for services provided for the Department’s information technology partner, for other departments and for overseas tax administrations.

40,027,000

5. For expenditure by the Inland Revenue Department Valuation Office (Executive Agency) on the provision of rating and valuation services for government departments and other public bodies.

1,000

352,000

8. For expenditure by National Savings on administration and publicity costs.

1,942,000

9. For expenditure by the Registry of Friendly Societies on behalf of the Building Societies Commission, the Friendly Societies Commission and the Central Office of the Registry on administrative costs.

100,000

450,000

10. For expenditure by the National Debt Office, Public Works Loan Board and the residual office of HM Paymaster General on administration costs.

1,000

208,000

11. For expenditure by Paymaster on administrative costs and for payments to the National Investment and Loans Office (Class XVI, Vote 10).

2,000

568,000

12. For expenditure by the Office for National Statistics on the provision of economic, social labour market statistics and on departmental administration.

7,792,000

4,205,000

Class XVII

1. For expenditure by the Office of the Minister for Public Service on the central management of the Civil Service; expenditure resulting from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s chairmanship of the BSE Implementation Committee; price concessions to public libraries; to meet the cost of government and other publications supplied to United Kingdom members of the European Parliament; expenditure on the privatisations of executive agencies; and certain other services.

8,876,000

21,738,000

3. For expenditure by the Central Office of Information on allied service work and to provide a subsidy to the Central Office of Information trading fund.

5,200,000

Class XVIII

1. For expenditure by the Cabinet Office on administrative costs; the Offices of the Prime Minister, the Parliamentary Counsel and the Government Chief Whip; payments to the Chequers Trust and the British National Committee for the History of the Second World War; and certain other services.

4,354,000

70,000

2. For expenditure by Her Majesty’s security and intelligence services on administration and operation costs; works and equipment; pensions; and other payments.

3,750,000

2,000,000

3. For expenditure by the Department of Her Majesty’s Privy Council on administration costs and for the financing of a Central Drugs Co-ordination Unit.

296,000

5. For expenditure of the House of Lords on Peers’ expenses; administrative costs including staff pensions, security, stationery, printing; and financial assistance to Opposition parties.

1,000

6. For the expenditure by the House of Lords on works services, including a payment to the House of Commons in respect of administration.

485,000

7. For expenditure by the House of Commons on Members’ salaries, allowances, pensions etc, financial assistance to Opposition parties and an Exchequer contribution to the Members’ Fund.

7,314,000

Total, Supplementary, 1996-97

3,979,445,000

650,150,000

*Deficit

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 3Class I

Class I 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, including provision for numbers of personnel as set out hereunder, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Ministry of Defence on personnel costs etc of the armed forces and their reserves and cadet forces, etc (including provision for Naval Service to a number not exceeding 51,440; provision for Reserve Naval and Marine Forces to a number not exceeding 17,195; provision for Army Service to a number not exceeding 129,950; provision for the Reserve Land Forces to a number not exceeding 112,579; provision for Special Members of the Reserve Land Forces to a number not exceeding 6,000; provision for Air Force Service to a number not exceeding 59,100; provision for Air Reserve Forces to a number not exceeding 23,000; and provision for Special Members of the Reserve Air Forces to a number not exceeding 105); personnel costs etc of Defence Ministers and of civilian staff employed by the Ministry of Defence; movements, stores, supplies and services; spares and maintenance; plant and machinery; charter of ships; research; lands and buildings; works services; contingent liabilities; services provided by other Government departments; sundry services, subscriptions, grants, and other payments including those abroad such as assistance to foreign and Commonwealth governments for defence related purposes; and set-up costs, loans and funding to trading funds.

10,145,386,000

1,621,614,000

2. For expenditure by the Ministry of Defence on logistics services for the armed forces and the related personnel services for the armed forces and the related personnel costs; spares, repair, maintenance, stores and supply services; associated capital facilities and works; contractors’ redundancy costs; services provided by other Government departments; sundry services, subscriptions and grants; and set-up costs, loans and funding to trading funds.

4,806,637,000

469,036,000

3. For expenditure by the Procurement Executive of the Ministry of Defence in operating its headquarters and establishments and for its other common services; research, etc by contract; procurement including development and production of equipment and weapon systems for the three armed forces; purchases for sale abroad; contingent liabilities; for sundry other procurement services including those on repayment terms; the procurement of a new Royal Yacht; and loans and funding to trading funds.

6,175,530,000

221,484,000

4. For expenditure by the Ministry of Defence on retired pay, pensions and other payments, etc.

1,072,744,000

1,004,995,000

Total, Class I

22,200,297,000

3,317,129,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 4Class II

Class II 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on its salaries, building and other accommodation services, and administration, and those of HM Diplomatic Service, official information services, sundry services; and loans and payments in connection with catering services and related receipts.

619,601,000

99,323,000

2. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on grants and subscriptions, etc. to certain international organisations; contributions in respect of international peace-keeping; special payments and assistance; scholarships; military aid; overseas visitors; sundry other grants and services.

217,215,000

15,281,000

3. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on payments to the British Broadcasting Corporation for external radio broadcasting and monitoring services.

169,906,000

3,721,000

4. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on the British Council.

97,884,000

5. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Overseas Development Administration under the Overseas Development and Co-operation Act 1980 on the United Kingdom’s overseas development assistance, including financial and technical assistance to governments, institutions, voluntary agencies and individuals; capital and other subscriptions and contributions, including payments under guarantee, to multilateral development banks and other international and regional bodies; emergency, refugee and other relief assistance; pensions and allowances in respect of overseas service including contributions to pension funds (including payments under the Overseas Pensions Act 1973 and grants in lieu of pensions); global environment assistance; loans to the Commonwealth Development Corporation under the Commonwealth Development Corporation Acts 1978–1995; expenditure on the Turkey Ankara Metro mixed credit Aid and Trade provision project; running costs, related capital expenditure and other administrative costs including for the Natural Resources Institute (a former executive agency); and payments (under the authority of the European Communities Act 1972) to certain beneficiaries of the Gibraltar Social Insurance Fund.

1,564,279,000

89,520,000

6. For expenditure by the Foreign and Commonwealth Office: Overseas Development Administration on pension and superannuation payments and compensation payments, etc in respect of overseas service; and sundry other services and expenditure.

161,564,000

281,000

Total, Class II

2,830,449,000

208,126,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 5Class III

Class III 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Intervention Board—Executive Agency in giving effect in the United Kingdom to the agricultural support provisions of the Common Agricultural Policy of the European Union; other services including BSE emergency measures; and administration.

424,157,000

3,246,374,000

2. For expenditure by the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food on operational expenditure, agencies and departmental administration including BSE-related measures; promote food safety; take action against diseases with implications for human health; safeguard essential supplies in an emergency; promote action to alleviate flooding and coastal erosion; protect the rural economy particularly in Less Favoured Areas; encourage action to reduce water and other pollution and by other measures to safeguard the aquatic environment including its fauna and flora; improve the attractiveness and bio-diversity of the rural environment; implement MAFF’s CAP obligations efficiently and seek a more economically rational CAP while avoiding discrimination against UK businesses; create the conditions in which efficient and sustainable agriculture, fishing and food industries can flourish; take action against animal and plant diseases and pests; encourage high animal welfare standards; provide specialist support services, allocate resources where they are most needed; manage and develop staff; undertake research and development; and provide for the expenditure of the Ministry’s executive agencies.

764,818,000

161,758,000

Total, Class III

1,188,975,000

3,408,132,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 6Class IV

Class IV 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Department of Trade and Industry on support for business; research and development; consumer protection and the regulation of trade; improvement of industrial relations including trade union ballots, and payments towards the expenses of the Office of Manpower Economics; regional and selective assistance; the aerospace and shipbuilding industries; exchange risk and other losses; international subscriptions; energy-related programmes including research and development, security of oil and gas supplies, and civil nuclear emergency planning; grants and loans to the British Coal Corporation, liabilities in respect of former coal industry employees, mainly employees of the British Coal Corporation and associated administration costs including arbitration arrangements, grant in aid to the Coal Authority, and support for regeneration mainly of former British Coal sites; assistance to redundant steel workers; departmental administration, including the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service grant-in-aid, support for industrial tribunals, a share of the running costs of the Government Offices for the Regions and the disaster recovery costs in respect of the Radiocommunications Agency’s headquarters facilities; central and miscellaneous services; the operational costs of departmental executive agencies; privatisation expenses including the coal, nuclear power and electricity industries; loans to trading funds; petroleum licensing and royalty; provision of land and buildings; loans, grants and other payments.

1,522,835,000

485,058,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of Trade and Industry on payments to the science Research Councils, the Royal Society, the Royal Academy of Engineering; OST initiatives; fees payable under the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986; and Research Council pensions.

1,330,543,000

6,600,000

3. For payment of pensions, etc, to members of the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority’s superannuation schemes and other related expenditure.

103,250,000

24,800,000

4. For expenditure by the Export Credits Guarantee Department on administration.

24,035,000

1,334,000

5. For expenditure by the Export Credits Guarantee Department in connection with interest support to banks and other lenders of export finance; cover under the tender to contract/forward exchange supplement scheme; grants towards financing of exports to match foreign competition; residual commitments under discontinued guarantees offered to banks and external trade agencies; and cost escalation.

8,860,000

171,874,000

6. For expenditure by the Export Credits Guarantee Department in connection with export credit guarantees, other guarantees given in the national interest or to render economic assistance to overseas countries, overseas investment insurance and trading expenses.

1,000

224,799,000

7. For expenditure by the Office of Fair Trading on administrative and operational costs.

20,043,000

146,000

8. For expenditure by the Office of Telecommunications on administrative and operational costs.

10,408,000

24,000

9. For expenditure by the Office of Gas Supply on administrative and capital costs.

8,100,000

1,885,000

10. For expenditure by the Office of Electricity Regulation on administrative and operational costs.

13,950,000

935,000

Total, Class IV

3,042,025,000

917,455,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 7Class V

Class V 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Department of Transport’s Highways Agency on the construction, improvement, maintenance and management of motorways and trunk roads, including the acquisition of land, publicity, scheme design and preparation, archaeological survey and rescue work, compensation; administration costs of the Highways Agency; and research and development in support of Highways Agency operations.

1,562,329,000

68,501,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of Transport on central transport administration; Government Office administration; miscellaneous services; ports and shipping services; civil aviation services; international aviation services; Royal Travel; transport security; freight grants; land transport research and development; and expenditure associated with the non rail privatisation programme.

158,075,000

39,144,000

3. For expenditure by the Department of Transport on support to nationalised industries; grants to Railtrack, DoA Ltd; MRPS grant; payments in respect of expenditure relating to Channel Tunnel Rail Link; expenditure connected with the privatisation of British Rail businesses and Railtrack; other consultancies; capital expenditure by transport industries funded by EU grants; railway industry and National Freight Company pension funds; National Freight Company travel concessions; and rebate of fuel duty to bus operators.

1,135,374,000

43,000,000

4. For expenditure by the Department of Transport in connection with driver and vehicle registration and licensing, the collection of revenue, compensation and payments towards the pension of Local Authority staff employed on driver and vehicle licensing before the setting up of DVLC; and the development and operations of other systems associated with registration and licensing, the provision of anonymised data and the provision of miscellaneous services to other parts of the Department.

154,825,000

42,015,000

5. For expenditure by the Department of Transport on grants and consultancies for roads and local transport; Central Transport Group services and consultancies for national roads; priority routes in London; Government Office programme expenditure including maintenance and operation of the Woolwich ferry; vehicle and traffic enforcement; publicity; statistics, censuses and surveys; Trans European network payments for various local transport projects; transport supplementary grants to highway authorities in England; public transport facilities grants; grants to highway authorities and developers under the Industrial Development Act; licence fee refunds to goods vehicle and public service vehicle operators and drivers; and grants to the Humber Bridge Board.

313,863,000

16,196,000

6. For expenditure by the Department of Transport on Marine Safety, Coastguard and Vehicle Certification agencies; loans to the Vehicle Inspectorate and the Driving Standards Agency trading funds; and payments to the Meteorological Office and the Driving Standards Agency.

97,408,000

9,551,000

7. For expenditure by the Office of Passenger Rail Franchising on the franchising of passenger rail services; the provision of, and support for, passenger rail services; the formation and financing of companies formed to facilitate the Franchising Director’s functions; and administration and miscellaneous services.

1,516,385,000

40,000,000

8. For expenditure by the Office of the Rail Regulator on administration and associated capital and other expenditure; and on costs of the Rail Users Consultative Committees.

8,600,000

Total, Class V

4,946,859,000

258,407,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 8Class VI

Class VI 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on payments to the Housing Corporation; Housing Revenue Account Subsidy; private sector renewal; home improvement agencies; the Estates Renewal Challenge Fund; rent officers and Rent Assessment Panels; homelessness; housing management and mobility; gypsy sites; research, including projects on regeneration and European Union programmes; publicity; and for sundry other housing and construction services and projects.

5,683,279,000

3,159,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on Single Regeneration payments to support urban and other regeneration initiatives; payments to Dearne Valley College; countryside and wildlife payments; grants to voluntary bodies; EU agency payments; central government grants to local authorities for the Single Regeneration Budget; National Park Authorities; countryside and wildlife and publicity payments related to the promotion of the Department’s regeneration and countryside policies and programmes; and the private finance initiative.

1,453,868,000

13,987,000

3. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on the environment, including research, long term monitoring and surveys; support to the environmental protection industry; environmental technology; support for measures to improve energy efficiency and evironmental practice; support for measures which improve local environmental quality; support of the aims and implementation of the convention on Biological Diversity; support for the Tidy Britain Group and the National Environmental Technology Centre; smoke control and other improvements in air quality; environmental (including energy efficiency) publicity, promotion and awareness, including support for measures to promote sustainable development; the measurement of radon in premises; grant-in-aid to the Environment Agency, British Waterways Board and UK Ecolabelling Board; water supply and sewerage services including civil defence; the Wash Estuary Trial Bank; grants to voluntary bodies; subscriptions and contributions to international organisations; planning redevelopment; residual services in connection with the privatisation of the water supply industry; compensation for persons disabled by certain industrial diseases; advice and awareness on handling of health issues which arise in the workplace; Going for Green; and pollution emergency response servicing.

343,730,000

570,000

4. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on payment of revenue support grant and redistributed non-domestic rates to receiving authorities in England; payments to specified bodies and the Commission for Local Administration in England; payments for Valuation Office Agency rating and valuation services; payments to meet the expenses of valuation tribunals; grant in aid to the Local Government Commission and to the Local Government Residuary Body; residual payments of community charge grant; payments under the council tax transitional reduction scheme; payments of SSA reduction grants; payments of reorganisation; transitional reduction grant; emergency financial assistance to local authorities including payments under section 88B of the Local Government Finance Act 1988 to authorities affected by terrorism; repayments of excess contributions made by local authorities in respect of non-domestic rates in 1996–97 and previous years; and local government minerals and planning research and publicity, including European Union programmes and contributions to the Local Government Management Board.

31,487,957,000

130,000

5. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment and its agencies on administration, royal commissioners, committees, etc; by the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency on appeals; grant in aid to the Health and Safety Commission; the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre Executive Agency; and the residual functions of PSA Services; and the former Building Research Establishment Executive Agency.

393,455,000

8,942,000

6. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on the sale of the PSA Services businesses.

1,000

3,049,000

7. For expenditure by the Office of Water Services on administrative and operational costs and the provision of customer representation.

10,300,000

10,000

8. For expenditure by the Ordnance Survey on the survey of Great Britain and other mapping services.

6,759,000

78,180,000

Total, Class VI

39,379,349,000

108,027,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 9Class VII

Class VII 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Home Office on police; the Forensic Science Service; emergency planning; fire services (including grants for private finance initiative projects); the Fire Service College; criminal policy and programmes including offender programmes; the preventon of drug abuse; crime prevention and other services related to crime; research; criminal injuries compensation; organised and international crime; control of immigration and nationality (including the employer sanctions helpline); issue of passports; community and constitutional services; firearms compensation and related matters including administration and grants to police authorities under the Firearms (Amendment) Act 1997; and administration (excluding the provision for prisons administration carried on Class VII, Vote 2).

5,063,059,000

129,543,000

2. For expenditure by the Home Office in England and Wales on prisons (including central administration and other costs arising from the detention of prisoners); placements in secure accommodation under Section 53 of the Children and Young Persons Act 1933; Prison Service colleges; the Parole Board; the storage and maintenance of equipment; transport management; and grants to “Prisoners Abroad”.

1,756,845,000

19,058,000

Total, Class VII

6,819,904,000

148,601,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 10Class VIII

Class VIII 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Lord Chancellor’s Department on the Lord Chancellor’s Department HQ and associated offices; payments in support of marriage guidance; conciliation and mediation; the Court Service; the Public Trust Office; legal aid in criminal cases; grants to the Legal Aid Fund; costs paid from central funds; the magistrates’ courts; and other legal services.

2,223,453,000

329,278,000

2. For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Court Service on court services; other legal services; accommodation services; and legal aid.

42,799,000

10,712,000

3. For expenditure by the Public Record Office on administration and operational costs.

23,286,000

1,500,000

4. For expenditure by the Crown Prosecution Service on administrative costs, including the hire of private prosecuting agents; Crown prosecutions; and in connection with the confiscation of the proceeds of crime.

282,941,000

20,911,000

5. For expenditure by the Serious Fraud Office on administration, investigation and prosecution costs.

15,917,000

101,000

6. For expenditure by the Department of the Procurator General and Treasury Solicitor, the Treasury Solicitor’s Department Agency, the Government Property Lawyers’ Agency and the Legal Secretariat to the Law Officers on administration and costs for fees for legal and related services.

8,518,000

39,864,000

7. For expenditure by the Crown Office and Lord Advocate’s Department on administrative costs, including fees paid to temporary Procurators Fiscal; and on witnesses expenses and other costs associated with Crown prosecutions.

45,337,000

106,000

Total, Class VIII

2,642,251,000

402,472,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 11Class IX

Class IX 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Department for Education and Employment on grant-maintained schools and schools conducted by Education Associations; voluntary and special schools; the Assisted Places Scheme; the provision of education for under-fives; City Colleges and other specialist schools; music and ballet schools; direct grant schools; the school curriculum and its assessment; the youth service and other educational services and initiatives; careers guidance and services; payments for or in connection with teacher training; higher and further education provision and initiatives; loans to students, student awards and other student grants and their administration; the payment of access funds; reimbursement of fees for qualifying European Union students; compensation payments to teachers and staff of certain institutions; expenditure on other central government grants to local authorities; the provision of training and assessment programmes for young people and adults; initiatives to improve training and qualifications arrangements and access to these; the promotion of enterprise and the encouragement of self employment; payments for education, training and employment projects assisted by the European Union and refunds to the European Union; help for unemployed people; the promotion of equal opportunities and co-ordination of certain issues of particular importance to women; the payment of certain fees to the Home Office; the Department’s own administration and research and that of Capita; information and publicity services; expenditure via Training and Enterprise Councils and amounts retained by them as surpluses and spent by them on training and other initiatives within their articles and memoranda of association.

11,893,243,000

3,213,569,000

2. For expenditure by the Department for Education and Employment on superannuation allowances and gratuities, etc, in respect of teachers, and the widows, widowers, children and dependants of deceased teachers; and for premature retirement compensation payments made to members of the Teachers’ Superannuation Scheme and on behalf of their employers.

1,922,005,000

1,773,653,000

3. For expenditure by the Employment Service of the Department for Education and Employment on measures to help people, particularly people who are unemployed and people with disabilities, into work; the elements of the delivery of the Jobseeker’s Allowance undertaken by the Employment Service; the payment of grants to voluntary bodies and local authorities towards the provision of supported employment; a grant in aid and the provision of a temporary loan facility, to Remploy Limited; the administration of, and where appropriate the payment of, allowances to people participating in employment programmes, including pilot programmes and new measures to help people into work; assistance to eastern Europe on labour market issues; European Employment Services on behalf of the European Commission; research; publicity; and administration.

1,155,101,000

32,461,000

4. For expenditure by the Office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in England on administration and inspection, including the inspection of nursery education.

150,503,000

750,000

Total, Class IX

15,120,852,000

5,020,433,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 12Class X

Class X 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Department of National Heritage on payments in the support of national and other museums and galleries; for the Government Indemnity Scheme; to the Inland Revenue for assets accepted in lieu of tax; in the support of the British Library and other library institutions and services; to the Arts and Sports Councils and for other arts and sports bodies and schemes; to Royal Palaces and Parks; to the Royal Armouries; for historic buildings, ancient monuments, certain public buildings and the national heritage; for the promotion of tourism and European Regional Development Fund projects; to film bodies and projects; to the Welsh Fourth Channel Authority and for certain broadcasting services and schemes including the expenses on the privatisation of the BBC transmission services; for related research, surveys and other services; for central administration costs; and for commemorative services.

866,330,000

46,047,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of National Heritage on payments to the British Broadcasting Corporation for home broadcasting; and payments to the Independent Television Commission.

1,984,000,000

3. For expenditure by the Office of the National Lottery on administrative costs.

2,500,000

4. For expenditure by the Charity Commission for England and Wales on administrative costs

21,368,000

31,000

Total Class X

2,874,198,000

46,078,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 13Class XI

Class XI 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Department of Health on hospital, community health, family health and related services.

30,099,261,000

6,978,057,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of Health on administration, including certain expenditure on behalf of the Department of Social Security and the National Health Service in England; miscellaneous health, personal social and other services (some of which are administered on a United Kingdom basis), including medical, scientific and technical services, services for disabled persons, grants to voluntary organisations, medical treatment given to people from the United Kingdom in other countries of the European Economic Area and welfare food; payments in respect of Home Office inspection of laboratories services; grants in aid; and payments and subscriptions to international organisations.

1,285,260,000

111,534,000

3. For expenditure by the NHS Pensions Agency on pensions, allowances, gratuities, etc., to or in respect of persons engaged in health services or in other approved employment.

802,157,000

1,560,150,000

Total, Class XI

32,186,678,000

8,649,741,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 14Class XII

Class XII 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Department of Social Security on non-contributory retirement pensions; Christmas bonus payments to pensioners; pensions etc., for disablement or death arising out of war, or service in the armed forces after 2 September 1939 and sundry other services, including pension and other payments in respect of service in the armed forces at other times; attendance allowances; invalid care allowance; severe disablement allowance; disability living allowance; disability working allowance; pensions, gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes; income support; payments of spousal and child maintenance; child benefit; one-parent benefit; family credit; vaccine damage payment scheme; earnings top up pilot; jobseeker’s allowance (contribution based); jobseeker’s allowance (income based); and back to work bonus.

38,010,026,000

972,130,000

2. For expenditure by the Department of Social Security on rent rebate, rent allowance, council tax benefit, community charge benefit, community charge rebate and rate rebate subsidies to housing, billing, levying and local authorities, subsidies towards their costs incurred in administering the housing benefit and/or council tax benefit schemes and sums payable in respect of anti-fraud and similar administrative measures; sums payable as funding for LOFIT; sums payable to the National Insurance Fund to increase its income and compensation payments in respect of statutory sick pay, statutory maternity pay and the national insurance contribution holiday scheme; sums payable into the Social Fund for expenditure on maternity expenses, funeral expenses, and heating expenses in exceptionally cold weather, and to finance budgeting loans, crisis loans and community care grants; sums payable as grants to Independent Living, as grants to Motability towards their administrative costs and to enable them to assist invalid vehicle users and others to have adapted and/or to purchase or lease cars from them and as grants to the British Limbless ex-Servicemen’s Association to enable them to assist certain other disabled vehicle users have cars adapted.

10,937,830,000

6,728,000

3. For expenditure by the Department of Social Security on administration; agency payments; the promotion of Government policy on disability issues; measures to help lone parents into work; and for other services including grants to local authorities and voluntary organisations and other organisations including Chaseley Nursing Home.

2,035,828,000

1,250,417,000

Total, Class XII

50,983,684,000

2,229,275,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 15Class XIII

Class XIII 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by The Scottish Office Agriculture, Environment and Fisheries Department on market support; support for agriculture in special areas including crofting communities; for structural measures (including agri-environmental measures); compensation to sheep producers and animal health; agricultural education; advisory, research and development services; botanical and scientific services; assistance to production marketing and processing; administration land management and other agricultural services; assistance to the Scottish fishing industry; fishery protection; other services including fisheries research and development and special services; domestic sewerage relief grant; natural heritage; environment protection; rural affairs; flood and coastal protection; and other water grants.

309,772,000

22,560,000

2. For expenditure by The Scottish Office Development Department on revenue support grants and payment of non-domestic rates in Scotland; special grants relating to council tax and spend to save scheme; housing subsidies, financial support for Scottish Homes, other expenditure, contributions and grants relating to housing; historic buildings and monuments (including administration); other central and environmental services including flood and storm emergencies, special financial assistance for Dunblane, sites for travelling people and residual grants to housing associations; roads and certain associated services, including the acquisition of land, lighting, road safety, work on roads on behalf of the Department of Transport and related services; assistance to local transport; support for transport services in the highlands and islands; piers and harbours; certain other transport services and grants; grants for other services on the urban programme; other urban regeneration initiatives; expenses connected with the new towns wind up; expenditure relating to the privatisation of the Scottish Bus Group and Highlands and Islands Airports Limited; grants to local authorities forming part of the Strathclyde Passenger Transport Area; other sundry services in connection with the environment; and European Regional Development Fund and European Social Fund grants to public corporations, non-departmental public bodies, local authorities and other bodies and organisations.

5,535,162,000

32,988,000

3. For expenditure by The Scottish Office Education and Industry Department on schools; grants for pre-school education; higher education and research, including the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council; the Student Awards Agency for Scotland including running and capital costs of the agency; further education, including payments to further education colleges; curriculum development including the Scottish Consulative Council on the Curriculum and national testing including payments to the Scottish Qualifications Authority; international and other educational services, including support for School Boards, and training, research and educational technology; payments to careers service companies and education/industry link activities; sport; community education; Gaelic broadcasting; arts, libraries, museums and galleries, including purchase grants; cultural and scientific activities and organisations; publicity; indemnities; administration; central government grants to local authorities; enterprise, training and tourism including support for Scottish Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise and the Scottish Tourist Board; investment assistance; innovation and technology support; technical and vocational education; the privatisation of the electricity industry; sundry industry etc related activities including research and the expenses of various bodies; pensions and lump sums payable under the teachers’ and NHS pension schemes, and certain premature retirement compensation payments; and the running and capital costs of the Scottish Office Pensions Agency.

2,187,815,000

570,736,000

4. For expenditure by the Scottish Office Department of Health on hospital and community health services, including National Health Service trusts, family health services and welfare food; the Scottish Drugs Challenge Fund; and other services provided under the National Health Service in Scotland.

4,036,400,000

666,296,000

5. For expenditure by the Scottish Office Home Department on legal aid (including administration); criminal injuries compensation (including administration); certain services relating to crime including Parole Board for Scotland; the Scottish Prison Service (an executive agency); the Scottish Prisons Complaints Commission; police services (including grants) to local authorities and superannuation of police on secondment; fire services (including Scottish Fire Service Training School and superannuation); civil defence (including grants) and other protective miscellaneous services; social work services, including the Scottish Children’s Reporter administration and the provision of residential and secure accommodation for children; services for offenders, including probation and supervised attendance orders; grants to voluntary organisations; training and research; unemployed voluntary action fund; grants for ethnic minority groups and other grants to local authorities.

838,298,000

7,843,000

6. For expenditure by the Scottish Office on administrative costs, operational costs and on the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland.

150,154,000

8,342,000

7. For expenditure by the General Register Office for Scotland on administrative and operational costs.

5,067,000

2,713,000

8. For expenditure by the Scottish Record Office on administrative costs; acquiring record material; construction and associated costs of a new purpose-built repository; publication of a revised edition of the Acts of Parliament of Scotland; conservation grants to local archives; and a grant to the Business Archives Council of Scotland.

4,422,000

779,000

9. For expenditure by the Scottish Courts Administration and the Scottish Court Service on court services; the Scottish Law Commission; certain legal services; costs and fees in connection with legal proceedings.

53,395,000

16,041,000

10. For payments to the Forestry Fund.

52,425,000

200,000

Total, Class XIII

13,172,910,000

1,328,498,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 16Class XIV

Class XIV 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on market support; support for agriculture in special areas and compensation to sheep producers; animal health; assistance to agricultural production, marketing and processing; grants for capital and other improvements and certain alternative land uses; compensation to the farming, fishing and fish-farming industries; support for the food industry, the rural economy and the fishing industry; fisheries protection; agency payments for fishing projects; European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund grants to local authorities and other organisations; other miscellaneous agricultural services; and arterial drainage, flood and coast protection.

53,653,000

6,579,000

2. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on regional assistance; Welsh Development Agency; Development Board for Rural Wales; exchange risk guarantees; other industry expenditure; the Teaching Company Scheme; expenditure via Training and Enterprise Councils and amounts retained by them as surpluses on training, including the provision of training programmes for young people and adults; initiatives and programmes within education; the promotion of enterprise, and encouragement of self-employed and small firms; help for unemployed people; Careers Service; publicity and research; education (including the Further Education Funding Council for Wales and the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales); and certain other services and expenses.

817,129,000

27,123,000

3. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on arts; libraries; museums; roads and transport and associated services; housing, including the commutation of loan charge grants to local authorities; historic buildings and ancient monuments; Cadw Agency; other environmental services (including tourism, civil defence, national parks, Planning Inspectorate Agency and payments related to EU matters); health and personal social services and related inquiries; European Regional Development Fund; Welsh Office administration; TEC management fees (part); and other grants and services, including research.

907,403,000

5,765,000

4. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on hospital, community health, family health services, National Health Service trusts and on other health services (part).

2,098,610,000

338,417,000

5. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on revenue support grant and payment of non-domestic rates income to receiving authorities in Wales; payments to specified bodies; grants to local authorities in Wales in respect of the Council Tax Reduction Scheme; reduction grant to Dyfed-Powys Police Authority; special grants to local authorities following natural emergencies; payments for Valuation Office Agency rating and valuation services; running costs of Valuation Tribunals; publicity costs; exceptional expenses for the Commission for Local Administration in Wales; Treasury Solicitor legal services; repayments of excess contributions made by billing authorities and adjustments for shortfalls in receipts made by the Secretary of State in respect of non-domestic rates in previous years, etc.

2,357,555,000

21,000

6. For expenditure by the Office of Her Majesty’s Chief Inspector of Schools in Wales on inspections, publicity, training, teacher’s short courses and conferences, administration and associated capital, etc.

10,105,000

345,000

Total, Class XIV

6,244,455,000

378,250,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 17Class XV

Class XV 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Office on central and miscellaneous services; security and associated costs; elections; Forum administration; political talks administration and associated costs; forensic services; services related to crime; police; prisons; criminal justice; training schools; probation and after-care etc; compensation schemes; Crown prosecutions and other legal services; European Union peace and reconciliation projects; and certain other grants.

942,922,000

9,912,000

2. For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Office on a grant-in-aid to the Northern Ireland Consolidated Fund and other transfers.

2,000,000,000

Total, Class XV

2,942,922,000

9,912,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 18Class XVI

Class XVI 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by Her Majesty’s Treasury on economic, financial and related administration including debt management; payments to certain parliamentary bodies and certain other services including expenses in connection with Honours and Dignities; and a grant in aid to the Private Finance Panel Executive.

61,285,000

3,446,000

2. For expenditure by Her Majesty’s Treasury in connection with the manufacture, storage and distribution of coinage for use in the United Kingdom.

26,000,000

9,000,000

3. For expenditure by the Customs and Excise Department on the administration of taxation; the operation of customs and revenue controls and other customs and excise work; and payments in respect of the Customs and Excise National Museum.

842,003,000

15,513,000

4. For expenditure by the Inland Revenue Department on the management and collection of the direct taxes and for services provided for the Department’s information technology partner, for other departments and for overseas tax administrations.

1,627,009,000

137,791,000

5. For expenditure by the Inland Revenue Department Valuation Office (Executive Agency) on the provision of valuation and other services for government departments and other public bodies.

1,000

161,102,000

6. For expenditure by the Inland Revenue Department on life assurance premium relief, mortgage interest relief, private medical insurance premium relief, vocational training relief and transitional payments to charities.

204,000,000

7. For rates and contributions in lieu of rates paid by the Inland Revenue Department in respect of property occupied by the Crown and premises occupied by representatives of Commonwealth and foreign countries and international organisations.

55,000,000

585,000,000

8. For expenditure by National Savings on administration and publicity costs.

175,748,000

2,634,000

9. For expenditure by the Registry of Friendly Societies on behalf of the Building Societies Commission, the Friendly Societies Commission and the Central Office of the Registry on administrative costs.

3,767,000

3,810,000

10. For expenditure by the National Debt Office, Public Works Loan Board and the Office of the Paymaster General.

603,000

4,688,000

11. For expenditure by the Office for National Statistics on the provision of economic, social labour market and other statistics; and on departmental administration.

93,804,000

30,255,000

12. For expenditure by the Department of the Government Actuary on administrative costs.

604,000

6,232,000

13. For the salaries of the Crown Estate Commissioners and the expense of their Office.

1,714,000

14. For expenditure by Her Majesty’s Treasury in connection with the sales of residual Government shareholdings and holdings of privatised companies’ debt.

1,000

1,208,000

Total, Class XVI

3,091,539,000

960,679,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 19Class XVII

Class XVII 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Office of the Minister for Public Service on the central management of the Civil Service; expenditure resulting from the Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster’s chairmanship of the BSE Implementation Committee; price concessions to public libraries; to meet the cost of government and other publications supplied to UK members of the European Parliament; and certain other services.

140,987,000

128,510,000

2. For expenditure by the Cabinet Office: Office of Public Service on the superannuation of civil servants; pensions, etc, in respect of former members of the Royal Irish Constabulary and other pensions and non-recurrent payments; and for certain other services.

1,461,600,000

1,297,400,000

3. For expenditure by the Central Office of Information on allied service work.

1,182,000

Total, Class XVII

1,603,769,000

1,425,910,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 20Class XVIII

Class XVIII 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the Cabinet Office on administrative costs; the Offices of the Prime Minister, the Parliamentary Counsel and the Government Chief Whip; payments to the Chequers Trust and the British National Committee for the History of the Second World War; and certain other services.

36,220,000

7,558,000

2. For expenditure by Her Majesty’s security and intelligence services on administration and operational costs; works and equipment; pensions; and other payments.

713,532,000

3,644,000

3. For expenditure by the Department of Her Majesty’s Privy Council on administration costs and for the financing of a Central Drugs Co-ordination Unit.

2,505,000

26,000

4. For expenditure by the Office of the Parliamentary Commissioner for Administration and the Health Service Commissioners for England, Scotland and Wales on administrative costs.

15,000,000

5. For expenditure by the House of Lords on Peers’ expenses and administrative costs, including staff pensions, security, stationery, printing, and financial assistance to Opposition parties.

28,716,000

6. For expenditure by the House of Lords on works services, including a payment to the House of Commons in respect of administration.

13,999,000

650,000

7. For expenditure by the House of Commons on Members’ salaries, allowances, pensions, etc, financial assistance to Opposition parties and an Exchequer contribution to the Members’ Fund.

88,835,000

Total, Class XVIII

898,807,000

11,878,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 21Class XVIII, A

Class XVIII, A 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the House of Commons Commission on administration; including security, broadcasting, publicity, stationery, printing and a grant-in-aid to the History of Parliament Trust.

77,679,000

2. For expenditure by the House of Commons Commission on accommodation services, including the administrative costs of the services.

112,108,000

1,760,000

Total, Class XVIII, A

189,787,000

1,760,000

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 22Class XVIII, B

Class XVIII, B 1997–98

Schedule of Sums granted, and of the sums which may be applied as appropriations in aid in addition thereto, to defray the charges of the several Services herein particularly mentioned, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on 31st March 1998, viz.:—

Sums not exceeding

Supply Grants

Appropriations in Aid

£

£

1. For expenditure by the National Audit Office.

38,700,000

7,800,000

Total, Class XVIII, B

38,700,000

7,800,000

SCHEDULE (C)Enactments Repealed

Chapter

Short title

1995 c. 2

Consolidated Fund Act 1995

1995 c. 54

Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1995

1995 c. 19

Appropriation Act 1995