Appropriation Act 1990

Class IV 1990–91

SCHEDULE (B).—Part 6 Class IV

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 1991, viz.:—

	Sums not exceeding
	Supply Grants	Appropriations in Aid
	£	£
1. For expenditure by the Department of Trade and Industry on regional development grants, regional selective assistance, selective assistance to individual industries, certain other services including UK contributions arising from its commitments under international commodity agreements, a strategic mineral stockpile, and support for the film, aerospace, shipbuilding and steel industries including loans, grants and assistance to redundant steel workers, and other payments	371,385,000	105,889,000
2. For expenditure by the Department of Trade and Industry on central and miscellaneous services (including running costs, capital expenditure, consultancy advice, paid publicity, and grants to the fund for sub-postmasters), support for industry (including industrial research and development, civil aircraft research and demonstration, education, training, design, quality, marketing, management best practice and standards, and support for telecommunications), business development (including the Consultancy Initiatives and the Regional Enterprise Grant scheme), measurement and technology support, space technology programmes, protection of innovation, research establishments major works and other expenditure (including expenditure by the National Physical Laboratory, the National Engineering Laboratory, the National Weights and Measures Laboratory and the National Measurement Accreditation Service), miscellaneous support services, international trade (including export promotion, trade co-operation and international exhibitions), enterprise and job creation (the Inner Cities Initiative), the regulation of financial and trading practices, for special payments in connection with Barlow Clowes Gilt Managers Ltd., and Barlow Clowes International Ltd., and associated companies, consumer protection, Companies House Executive Agency, Radiocommunications Executive Agency, Warren Spring Laboratory Executive Agency, the Laboratory of the Government Chemist Executive Agency, English Industrial Estates Corporation, provision of land and buildings, loan, grants and other payments (Revised sum)	787,377,000	188,469,000
3. For Government support for British Shipbuilders, including the costs associated with the remedial measures in Sunderland, and grants from the shipbuilding intervention fund on residual contract obligations	8,000,000	—
4. For expenditure by the Export Credits Guarantee Department on administration	40,749,000	1,601,000
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; cost escalation cover; and residual commitments under discontinued guarantees offered to banks and external trade agencies (Including a Supplementary sum of £130,398,000)	372,200,000	79,349,000
6. For expenditure by the Export Credits Guarantee Department in connection with export credits guarantees; other guarantees given in the national interest or to render economic assistance to overseas countries; overseas investment insurance and trading expenses	581,320,000	393,620,000
7. For the expenditure by the Office of Fair Trading on administrative and operational costs	14,790,000	76,000
8. For expenditure by the Office of Telecommunications on administrative and operational costs	6,864,000	100,000
Total, Class IV £	2,182,685,000	769,104,000