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Mr. Simon Hughes
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer what cash contributions he has estimated that British Nuclear Fuels plc, Nuclear Electric and Scottish Nuclear will make to the national loans fund for each year from 1993 to 1998.
Mr. Portillo
No such estimates are available. All three companies may deposit cash surpluses in the national loans fund. But all three also have access to other deposit facilities. They take decisions on where to deposit surpluses from time to time as appropriate.
| Financial perspective expenditure ceilings | Preliminary draft budget | Budget council draft budget | ||||
| mecu | £ million1 | mecu | £ million | mecu | £ million | |
| Commitment appropriations | ||||||
| 1. Common agricultural policy | 36,465 | 28,063 | 36,465 | 28,063 | 36,465 | 28,063 |
| 2. Structural operations | 23,176 | 17,836 | 23,176 | 17,836 | 23,176 | 17,836 |
| 3. Internal policies | 4,325 | 3,328 | 4,243 | 3,265 | 3,638 | 2,800 |
| 4. External action | 4,236 | 3,260 | 4,174 | 3,212 | 4,020 | 3,094 |
| 5. Administrative expenditure | 3,579 | 2,754 | 3,579 | 2,754 | 3,578 | 2,754 |
| 6. Reserves | 1,530 | 1,177 | 1,530 | 1,177 | 1,530 | 1,177 |
| Total commitments | 73,311 | 56,419 | 73,167 | 56,308 | 72,407 | 55,723 |
| Total payment appropriations | 70,232 | 54,050 | 70,099 | 53,947 | 69,011 | 53,110 |
| 1 Throughout this reply the rate of £1 =1.2994 ecu has been used—the rate notified in the Official Journal as prevailing on the last working day of last month (30 June). | ||||||