PREFACE
This memorandum is provided to accompany the
Main Supply Estimates 1998-99 for Class VI Environment, Transport
and the Regions, providing the Environment Transport and the Regions
Select Committee with further details on the provision sought
by the Department for Votes 1-9. The Office of the Rail Regulator,
the Office of Water Services and Ordnance Survey have their own
Accounting Officers and will account separately for Votes 11,
12 and 13 respectively. This is also the case for the Office of
Passenger Rail Franchising (Vote 10). However, as they account
for a large proportion of the expenditure for which the Deputy
Prime Minister and Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport
and the Regions is responsible, we thought that the Committee
would welcome a short explanation of any substantial changes to
their provision.
This memorandum is in five parts:
Part I—background information to
the explanatory memorandum and the Department's Annual Report
1998;
Part II—commentaries on the Supply
Estimates;
Part III—a list of expenditure
for which provision is sought on the sole authority of the Estimates
and the Appropriation Act;
Part IV—information on the Department's
progress in taking forward work on Schedule 5 of the Resource
Accounts;
Part V—a progress report on the
issues raised in the Report on the Estimates of the former Environment
Select Committee (HC 382).
