asked the Minister of State for the Civil Service whether he will estimate the percentage of each cash limit for 1978-79 for pay and general administrative expenses that is pay alone; whether he will give a breakdown of the general administrative expenses; and whether he will provide comparative figures for previous years.

For those cash blocks for which I have responsibility the following table gives for 1978–79 the

Department	Cash block	Percentage
Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	MAFF1	80
Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce	IBAP1	32
Cabinet Office	CO1	92
Central Office of Information	COI1	89
Charity Commission	CC1	90
Crown Estate Office	CEO1	88
Customs and Excise	CE1	89
Department of Education and Science	DES1	92
Department of Employment (including DE and ACAS)	DEM1	86
Department of Energy	DEN1	85
Department of the Environment	DOE1	70
Department of the Environment (Property Services Agency)	DOE3	64
Exchequer and Audit Department	EA1	90
Export Credits Guarantee Department	ECGD1	87
Office of Fair Trading	OFT1	81
Foreign and Commonwealth Office	FCO1	57
Forestry Commission	FC1	91
Registry of Friendly Societies	FSR1	81
Government Actuary's Department	GAD1	83
Department of Health and Social Security	DHSS1	63
Home Office	HO1	82
Department of Industry	Dl1	86
Inland Revenue	IR1	89
Land Registry	LR1	81
Lord Chancellor's Department	LCD 1	82
National Debt Office	NDO1	83
Department for National Savings	DNS1	45
Ordnance Survey	OS1	68
Overseas Development, Ministry of	ODM1	74
Parliamentary Commissioner and Health Service Commissioner	PCHC1	86
Paymaster General's Office	PMGO1	66
Office of Population Censuses and Surveys	OPCS1	93
Department of Prices and Consumer Protection	DPCP1	86
Privy Council Office	PCO1	91
Public Record Office	PRO1	91
Public Trustee Office	PTO1	95
Public Works Loan Commission	PWLC1	90
Her Majesty's Stationery Office	HMSO1	49
Department of Trade	DOT1	86
Department of Transport	DTP1	64
H.M. Treasury	HMT1	57
Treasury Solicitor	TS1	92
Scottish Office	SO1	88
Scottish Courts Administration	SCA1	86
Department of Registers of Scotland	DRS1	95
Registrar General's Office (Scotland)	RGO(S)1	84
Scottish Record Office	SRO1	83
Queen's and Lord Treasurer's Remembrancer	QLTR1	93
Welsh Office	WO1	75
Northern Ireland Office	NIO1	95

Cash limits are net of receipts. In those cases where the pay element was greater than the net cash limit the percentages shown are based on the gross amounts used in calculating the cash limit. Some cash blocks include expenditure which is neither pay nor general administrative expenses.General administrative expenses cover a wide variety of non-staff expenditure on goods and services and also appears in cash limits which are not my responsibility. For 1978–79 significant components were: