asked the Minister for Finance, in the light of the revised book of estimates, the unadjusted revised total figure for current Government expenditure in 1983; the amount by which it exceeded the original estimate in February 1983 and the revised estimate in July 1983; and in the light of these figures the revised current budget deficit for 1983.
Written Answers. - Current Government Expenditure, 1983.
422.
The latest (unadjusted) outturn for the non-capital supply services expenditure in 1983 is £5,030 million, which can be derived as follows from the Revised Estimates for Public Services, 1984:
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£m |
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Non-capital supply services — |
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adjusted outturn (Table 2) |
4,654.8 |
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Add: Provisional outturn for non-capital expenditure on the Posts and Telegraphs Vote (See addendum at end of Volume) |
376.8 |
|
5,031.6 |
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Less: Amount included in adjusted 1983 outturn for Posts and Telegraphs expenditure |
1.6 |
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Total |
5,030.0 |
This is £13 million below the comparable figure in the Table headed "Summary of Non-Capital Estimates" page viii of the 1983 Revised Estimates Volume. No separate figure for non-capital supply services expenditure was published in July 1983.
The published current budget deficit for 1983 is based on Exchequer issues to the end of the year for the non-capital Supply Services, rather than on Departmental expenditure, and does not therefore, fall to be revised.
Departmental balances arise where total Exchequer issues to Departments in any given year exceed their actual expenditure in that year. These balances are then taken into account in the following year's budgetary arithmetic. For instance the 1984 Budget took account of an estimated £25 million Departmental balances carried forward from 1983; the actual balances, which will not be known until audited accounts are published, will be deducted from Exchequer issues in 1984.