Appropriation Act 1996

Class VI 1996–97

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 8 Class VI

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 1997, viz.:—

	Sums not exceeding
	Supply Grants £	Appropriations in Aid £
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; asylum seekers' special housing grant; for research projects, including European Community programmes; publicity; and for sundry other housing and construction services and projects (Revised sum).	5,903,601,000	374,000
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 pre-funded 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 (Including a supplementary sum of £6,656,000.)	1,460,144,000	15,801,000
3. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on the environment, including research, long term monitoring and surveys; on environmental technology and support to the environmental protection industry; on support for measures to improve energy efficiency and environmental practice; on support for measures which improve local environmental quality; on support for the aims and implementation of the Convention on Biological Diversity; on support for the Tidy Britain Group and the National Environmental Technology Centre; on smoke control and other improvements in air quality; on environmental (including energy efficiency) publicity, promotion and awareness, including support for measures to promote sustainable development; on the measurement of radon in premises; on grant-in-aid to the Environment Agency, British Waterways Board and UK Ecolabelling Board; on water supply and sewerage services including civil defence; on the Wash Estuary Trial Bank; on grants to voluntary bodies; on subscriptions and contributions to international organisations; on planning redevelopment; on residual services in connection with the privatisation of the water supply industry; on compensation for persons disabled by certain industrial diseases; and on advice and awareness on handling of health issues which arise in the workplace.	349,909,000	552,000
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; on payments to specified bodies and the Commission for Local Administration in England; on payments for Valuation Office Agency rating and valuation services; on payments to meet the expenses of valuation tribunals; on grant-in-aid to the Local Government Commission; on residual payments of community charge grant; on payments under the council tax transitional reduction scheme; on payments of rate rebate grants; on emergency financial assistance to local authorities; on repayments of excess contributions made by local authorities and other bodies in respect of non-domestic rates in 1995–96 and previous years; and on local government minerals and planning research, including contributions to the Local Government Management Board (Revised sum).	31,631,167,000	170,000
5. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment and its agencies on administration, including research, royal commissioners, committees, etc., and by the Planning Inspectorate Executive Agency on appeals, and 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, and the residual functions of PSA Services.	452,776,000	56,700,000
6. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on the sale of PSA Services businesses. (Revised sum).	1,000	4,349,000
7. For expenditure for the Office of Water Services on administrative and operational costs, and the provision of customer representation.	9,201,000	10,000
8. For expenditure by the Ordnance Survey on the survey of Great Britain and other mapping services.	9,110,000	76,130,000
Total, Class VI	39,815,909,000	154,086,000