Consolidated Fund (Appropriation) (No. 2)
Bill
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SCHEDULE (B).- Part 14
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| CLASS
XII |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
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£ |
£ |
Vote |
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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 allowance; 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; on income support; payments of spousal and child
maintenance; child benefit; family credit; vaccine damage payment scheme; earnings
bottom-up pilot; jobseeker's allowance (income based), jobseeker's allowance (contribution
based); back to work bonus; and expenditure incurred as part of the Welfare to Work
initiative. |
38,187,457,000 |
958,268,000 |
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 on sums payable in respect of anti-fraud and similar
administrative measures; sums payable as funding for LOFIT; sums payable for use for
compensation payments to providers of existing supported accommodation; sums payable as
start-up costs incurred as part of the Welfare to Work initiative; sums payable to Private
Sector Landlords of existing supported accommodation for use as compensation payments,
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 Winter
fuel payments, 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 to have cars
adapted. |
10,321,781,000 |
3,897,000 |
3. For expenditure by the Department of Social
Security on administration; agency payments; co-ordination of certain issues of particular
importance to women; expenditure incurred as part of the Welfare to Work initiative;
expenditure on behalf of Department of Health; and for certain other services, including
grants to local authorities and voluntary organisations and other organisations. |
1,972,331,000 |
1,109,694,000
|
Total, Class XII £ |
50,481,569,000 |
2,071,859,000 |
SCHEDULE (B).- Part 15
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| CLASS
XIII |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
|
£ |
£ |
Vote |
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|
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. |
253,899,000 |
21,649,000 |
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 Environment, Transport and the
Regions 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. |
5,552,073,000 |
34,280,000 |
3. For expenditure by the Scottish Office Education
and Industry Department on schools; funding of pre-school education; grants for pre-school
education; higher education including the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council;
educational development, research and promotion; the Student Awards Agency for Scotland
including running and capital costs of the agency; further education, including payments to
further education colleges; training and development of teachers; curriculum development
including the Scottish Consultative 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; the privatisation of the electricity industry; sundry industry and training etc. related
activities including research, childcare and the expenses of various bodies; pensions,
allowances, gratuities etc. payable in respect of the teachers' and NHS pension schemes,
and certain premature retirement compensation payments; and the running and capital costs
of the Scottish Office Pensions Agency. |
2,241,610,000 |
634,299,000 |
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 Drugs Challenge Fund; and other
services provided under the National Health Service in Scotland. |
4,276,855,000 |
688,066,000 |
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 and 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. |
842,009,000 |
7,841,000 |
6. For expenditure by the Scottish Office on
administrative costs and operational costs, costs associated with the establishment of a
Scottish Parliament, costs of continuing services of a Scottish Parliament, other devolution
costs and on the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland. (Revised sum) |
151,869,000 |
8,738,000 |
7. For expenditure by the General Register Office for
Scotland on administrative and operational costs. |
5,577,000 |
2,302,000 |
8. For expenditure by the Scottish Record Office on
administrative costs; acquiring record material; construction and associated costs of a new
purpose-build repository; publication of a revised edition of the Act of Parliament of Scotland;
conservation grants to local archives; and a grant to the Business Archives Council of
Scotland. |
3,470,000 |
614,000 |
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. |
42,032,000 |
18,513,000 |
10. For payments to the Forestry Fund. |
47,425,000 |
200,000 |
Total, Class XIII £ |
13,416,819,000 |
1,416,502,000 |
SCHEDULE (B).- Part 16
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| CLASS
XIV |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
|
£ |
£ |
Vote |
|
|
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. |
41,429,000 |
6,643,000 |
2. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on regional
assistance; Welsh Development Agency; the former Development Board for Rural Wales
(merged with the Welsh Development Agency from the Autumn); 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; the Welfare to Work
programme; initiatives and programmes within education; the promotion of enterprise, and
encouragement of the 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); certain other services and
expenses; arts, libraries and museums. (Including a supplementary sum of
£4,300,000). |
836,063,000 |
31,604,000 |
3. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on roads and
transport and associated services; housing, including the commutation of loan charge grants
to local authorities and Capital Receipts Initiative; historic buildings and ancient monuments;
Cadw Agency; other environmental services (including tourism, civil defence, national parks,
Planning Inspectorate Agency and payments related to EC matters); health and personal
social services (including Welfare to Work) and related inquiries; European Regional
Development Fund; Welsh Office administration; costs associated with Devolution; TEC
management fees (part); and other grants and services, including research. |
813,975,000 |
7,524,000 |
4. For expenditure by the Welsh Office on hospital,
community health, family health services, National Health Service trusts and on other health
services (part). |
2,222,428,000 |
373,330,000 |
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; special grants local authorities following natural emergencies;
payments for Valuation Office Agency rating and valuation services; running costs of
Valuation Tribunals; publicity costs; Local Government research, reviews and evaluations;
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. |
2,467,045,000 |
10,000 |
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. |
10,216,000 |
355,000 |
Total, Class XIV £ |
6,391,156,000 |
419,466,000 |
SCHEDULE (B).- Part 17
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| CLASS
XV |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
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£ |
£ |
Vote |
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1. For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Office on
central and miscellaneous services; elections; Forum administration; political talks
administration; referendum costs; the Saville Inquiry; security; the Independent Commission
for Police Complaints in Northern Ireland; the Independent Commissioner for Holding
Centres; the Independent Assessor of Military Complaints in Northern Ireland; the Parades
Commission; arms decommissioning; forensic services; prisons; services related to crime;
criminal justice; training schools; probation and after-care, etc.; state pathology; Crown
prosecutions and other legal services; compensation schemes; policing; European Union
peace and reconciliation projects; and certain other grants. |
926,291,000 |
59,158,000 |
2. For expenditure by the Northern Ireland Office on a
grant-in-aid to the Northern Ireland Consolidated Fund and other transfers. |
1,800,000,000 |
— |
Total, Class XV £ |
2,726,291,000 |
59,158,000 |
SCHEDULE (B).- Part 18
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| CLASS
XVI |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
|
£ |
£ |
Vote |
|
|
1. For expenditure by Her Majesty's Treasury on
economic, financial and related administration; regulation and supervision of the insurance
industry; payments to certain parliamentary bodies and certain other services, including
expenses in connection with Honours and Dignities; a grant-in-aid to the Private Finance
Taskforce; payments relating to the Debt Management Office; and on providing information
to business about the euro (Including supplementary sum of £6,400,000). |
63,065,000 |
13,110,000 |
2. For expenditure by Her Majesty's Treasury in
connection with the manufacture, storage and distribution of coinage for use in the United
Kingdom. |
25,000,000 |
3,000,000 |
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. |
835,543,000 |
15,640,000 |
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. |
1,633,425,000 |
135,447,000 |
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 |
156,225,000 |
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. |
162,000,000 |
— |
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. |
40,000,000 |
585,000,000 |
8. For expenditure of National Savings on
administration and publicity costs. |
172,815,000 |
966,000 |
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. |
1,522,000 |
5,820,000 |
10. For expenditure by the National Investment and
Loans Office, National Debt Office, Public Works Loan Board and the Office of the
Paymaster General. |
330,000 |
5,498,000 |
11. For expenditure by the Office for National
Statistics on the provision of economic, social labour market and other statistics, and on
departmental administration. |
96,497,000 |
30,031,000 |
12. For expenditure by the Department of the
Government Actuary on administrative costs. |
619,000 |
6,324,000 |
13. For the salaries of the Crown Estate
Commissioners and the expense of their Office. |
1,757,000 |
— |
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 |
2,996,000 |
15. For expenditure by Her Majesty's Treasury to
repay to the Contingencies Fund certain miscellaneous advances made during the year
ended 31 March 1998 (New estimate). |
112,000 |
— |
Total, Class XVI £ |
3,032,687,000 |
960,057,000 |
SCHEDULE (B).- Part 19
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| CLASS
XVII |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
|
£ |
£ |
Vote |
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|
1. For expenditure by the Office of the Minister for
Public Service on the central management of, and delivery of services to, the civil service
including the delivery of cross-departmental IT systems; expenditure resulting from the
Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster's chairmanship of the Ministerial Committee on Food
and Safety; and certain other services. |
119,119,000 |
126,915,000 |
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. |
1,409,500,000 |
1,341,500,000 |
3. For expenditure by the Central Office of
Information on allied service work and payments to the Royal Household for the procurement
of communications and information services. |
1,182,000 |
— |
Total, Class XVII £ |
1,529,801,000 |
1,468,415,000 |
SCHEDULE (B).- Part 20
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| CLASS
XVIII |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
|
£ |
£ |
Vote |
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|
1. For expenditure by the Cabinet Office on
administrative costs; the Offices of the Prime Minister, the Minister Without Portfolio, the
Parliamentary Counsel and the Government Chief Whip; the 1998 Economic Summit;
payments to the Chequers Trust and the British National Committee for the History of the
Second World War, and certain other services. |
42,531,000 |
9,429,000 |
2. For expenditure by Her Majesty's Security and
Intelligence Services on administration and operational costs, works and equipment,
pensions and other payments. |
708,143,000 |
3,968,000 |
3. For expenditure of the Department of Her Majesty's
Privy Council on administration costs and for the financing of a Central Drugs Co-ordination
Unit. |
2,708,000 |
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. |
14,644,000 |
— |
5. For expenditure of the House of Lords on Peers'
expenses and administrative costs, including staff pensions, security, stationery, printing, and
financial assistance to Opposition parties. |
28,286,000 |
— |
6. For expenditure of the House of Lords on works
services: including a payment to the House of Commons in respect of
administration. |
13,802,000 |
100,000 |
7. For expenditure of the House of Commons on
Members' salaries, allowances, pensions, etc., financial assistance to Opposition parties, and
an Exchequer contribution to the Members' Fund. |
87,577,000 |
— |
Total, Class XVIII £ |
897,691,000 |
13,523,000 |
SCHEDULE (B).- Part 21
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| CLASS XVIII,
A |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
|
£ |
£ |
Vote |
|
|
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. |
86,180,000 |
— |
2. For expenditure by the House of Commons
Commission on accommodation services, including the administrative costs of the
services. |
86,120,000 |
1,100,000 |
Total, Class XVIII, A £ |
172,300,000 |
1,100,000 |
SCHEDULE (B).- Part 22
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| CLASS XVIII,
B |
| 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 1999, viz.:- |
| | Sums not
exceeding |
|
Supply
Grants |
Appropriations in Aid |
|
£ |
£ |
Vote |
|
|
1. For expenditure by the National Audit
Office. |
40,900,000 |
8,200,000 |
Total, Class XVIII, B £ |
40,900,000 |
8,200,000 |
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SCHEDULE
(C)
|
| ENACTMENTS
REPEALED |
Chapter |
Short title |
|
Consolidated Fund Act 1996 |
|
Consolidated Fund (No. 2) Act 1996 |
|
Appropriation Act 1996 |
