Appropriation Act (Northern Ireland) 2000

2000 CHAPTER 2

An Act to authorise the issue out of the Consolidated Fund of certain sums for the service of the year ending on 31st March 2001; to appropriate those sums for specified purposes and authorise other sums to be applied as appropriations in aid for those purposes; to authorise the Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow on the credit of the appropriated sums; and to repeal certain Appropriation Orders.

[25th July 2000]

BE IT ENACTED by being passed by the Northern Ireland Assembly and assented to by Her Majesty as follows:

Issue of sum out of the Consolidated Fund for the year ending 31st March 2001

1.  The Department of Finance and Personnel may issue out of the Consolidated Fund for the service of the year ending on 31st March 2001 the sum of £4,296,588,000.

Power for Department of Finance and Personnel to borrow

2.—(1) Subject to subsection (2), the Department of Finance and Personnel may borrow on the credit of the sums specified in section 1 any sum or sums not exceeding in the whole £2,148,294,000.

(2) Any money so borrowed shall be repaid, with any interest due thereon, out of the Consolidated Fund not later than 31st March 2001.

Appropriation of grants

3.—(1) The sum granted by section 1 out of the Consolidated Fund is appropriated for the purposes specified in Schedule 1.

(2) In addition to the sum granted by section 1 out of the Consolidated Fund, the sums specified in the third column of Schedule 1 may be applied as appropriations in aid of the grants for the purposes in connection with which those sums are specified.

Repeal of spent enactments

4.  The enactments mentioned in Schedule 2 are hereby repealed to the extent specified in the second column of that Schedule.

Short title

5.  This Act may be cited as the Appropriation Act (Northern Ireland) 2000.

SCHEDULES

SCHEDULE 1 SUMS GRANTED, ETC. FOR THE YEAR ENDING 31ST MARCH 2001

Purpose	Sums Granted (£)	Appropriations in Aid (£)
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT
A. For expenditure by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on market support, grants for capital and other improvements, development of alternative land uses, support for agriculture in special areas, assistance to production and market development.	9,197,000	—
B. For expenditure by the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on development of the agriculture and agricultural products industries, scientific, veterinary, fisheries and forestry services, watercourse management and flood protection, animal disease compensation, regional measures for farm support and enhancement of the countryside, the Foyle, Carlingford and Irish Lights Commission, rural development measures and central administration.	83,021,000	17,333,000
DEPARTMENT OF CULTURE, ARTS AND LEISURE
A. For expenditure by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure on: libraries (other than library services to schools), arts, the North/South Language Body, museums, the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, Armagh Observatory and Planetarium, the Odyssey Millennium Landmark Project, the Northern Ireland Millennium Company, the Northern Ireland Events Company, sports, inland fisheries, certain inland waterways (including paymen ts to the Rivers Agency), Waterways Ireland, Ordnance Survey of Northern Ireland, administration and research and certain miscellaneous services, grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for certain library services, and grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies.	35,403,000	1,779,000
DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
A. For expenditure by the Department of Education on: pre-school education, schools (including library services for schools), youth, community relations, administration and certain miscellaneous services (including certain teacher training); grants and grants in aid to education and library boards for certain services; grants and grants in aid to certain other bodies; and payments by the Department on behalf of the boards in respect of teachers' salaries.	703,989,000	2,101,000
B. For expenditure by the Department of Education on pensions, allowances, gratuities etc., certain payments to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund and certain payments on behalf of the education and library boards and the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment, in respect of premature retirement compensation.	41,540,000	84,494,000
DEPARTMENT OF ENTERPRISE, TRADE AND INVESTMENT
A. For expenditure by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on the administrative costs of the Executive of the Industrial Development Board, provision and maintenance of land and buildings, industrial development promotion, selective assistance and other services related to industry, and aircraft and shipbuilding.	77,435,000	11,975,000
B. For expenditure by the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Investment on training to improve company competitiveness, local enterprise, the Trade and Business Development Body, Industrial Research and Technology Unit (including grants to the Northern Ireland Science Park Foundation), development of tourism, health and safety, energy efficiency, assistance to the gas and electricity industries (including residual costs in connection with the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland), mineral exploration and other miscellaneous services, central administration, and other miscellaneous services, including grants in aid.	81,564,000	3,706,000
OFFICE FOR THE REGULATION OF ELECTRICITY AND GAS
A. For expenditure by the Office for the Regulation of Electricity and Gas.	1,000	1,725,000
DEPARTMENT OF THE ENVIRONMENT
A. For expenditure by the Department of the Environment on environment and heritage services, planning services, grants to District Councils, road safety services, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Northern Ireland, the Driver and Vehicle Testing Agency, transport licensing and enforcement and central administration and miscellaneous services.	47,994,000	17,213,000
DEPARTMENT FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT
A. For expenditure by the Department for Regional Development on the Roads Service; ferry, transport, airport and harbour services; strategic planning and visioning; energy matters; and central administration and miscellaneous services, including services to other departments.	142,532,000	9,399,000
B. For expenditure by the Department for Regional Development on the Water Service and related services.	104,673,000	38,495,000
DEPARTMENT OF HIGHER AND FURTHER EDUCATION, TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT
A. For expenditure by the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment for administrative and other miscellaneous costs, higher education (including universities and colleges of education), further and adult education, student support and other matters relating to tertiary education, including grants in aid to certain bodies and certain payments to the Department of Education in respect of teachers' premature retirement compensation.	227,315,000	—
B. For expenditure by the Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment for administrative and other miscellaneous costs, labour market services including employment law, tribunals and labour relations; youth and adult training, training in skills, management and enterprise training, community projects, redundancy payments to Action for Community Employment core workers, training to improve company competitiveness and employment schemes and services including those for people with disabilities.	125,148,000	1,301,000
DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH, SOCIAL SERVICES AND PUBLIC SAFETY
A. For expenditure by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on hospital, community health and personal social services, Health and Social Services trusts, family health services, the Food Safety Promotion Board, administration including services provided to other departments and certain other services.	1,022,981,000	249,206,000
B. For expenditure by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on fire and related services.	28,099,000	—
C. For expenditure by the Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety on superannuation benefits to or in respect of persons engaged in health and personal social services or in other approved employment.	10,851,000	81,750,000
DEPARTMENT FOR SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
A. For expenditure by the Department for Social Development on administration including a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for the administration costs of the Housing Benefit Scheme and expenditure on the Welfare to Work initiative; the administration of services provided to the Department of Social Security and other departments and on expenditure on accommodation.	72,597,000	56,435,000
B. For expenditure by the Department for Social Development on housing services, including certain grants in aid.	165,603,000	13,992,000
C. For expenditure by the Department for Social Development on urban regeneration and community development including grants to voluntary bodies, certain grants in aid and on other services including promotional activities and events.	33,139,000	5,868,000
D. For expenditure by the Department for Social Development on social security benefits including non-contributory retirement pensions, Christmas bonus payments to pensioners, attendance allowance, invalid care allowance, severe disablement allowance, disability living allowance, disability working allowance; pensions, gratuities and sundry allowances for disablement and specified deaths arising from industrial causes; income support, payments of spousal and child maintenance, child benefit, family credit, jobseeker’s allowance (income based), jobseeker’s allowance (contribution based), back to work bonus and child maintenance bonus; and expenditure incurred as part of the Welfare to Work initiative.	974,551,000	26,883,000
E. For expenditure by the Department for Social Development on grant in aid to the Independent Living Funds, grants to Motability towards their administrative costs and to enable them to assist invalid vehicle users and others to have adapted or to purchase or lease cars from them; a grant to the Northern Ireland Housing Executive for the payment of rent rebate, rent allowance, rates rebate and discretionary payments of rent allowance; sums payable for residual compensation payments to providers of existing supported accommodation; sums payable into the Social Fund for expenditure on community care grants, budgeting and crisis loans, maternity payments, funeral payments and cold weather and winter fuel payments; sums payable to the Northern Ireland National Insurance Fund as compensation payments in respect of statutory sick pay and statutory maternity pay and; expenditure incurred as part of the Welfare to Work initiative.	229,420,000	200,000
DEPARTMENT OF FINANCE AND PERSONNEL
A. For expenditure by the Department of Finance and Personnel on financial administration, central management of the Civil Service, the Special EU Programmes Body, the North/South Ministerial Council, the British-Irish Council, the Civic Forum, involvement in wider public sector personnel issues, the Valuation and Lands Agency, the Business Development Service, the Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, the Government Purchasing Agency, the Land Registers of Northern Ireland, the Rate Collection Agency, Accommodation Services, the Construction Service and other services, including certain miscellaneous expenses and grant in aid and other common services.	44,867,000	26,140,000
B. For expenditure by the Department of Finance and Personnel on pensions, lump sums and gratuities to former civil servants, pensions to widows, widowers, children and dependants and civil pensions and gratuities.	2,359,000	89,820,000
OFFICE OF THE FIRST MINISTER AND DEPUTY FIRST MINISTER
A. For expenditure by the Office of the First Minister and Deputy First Minister on community relations, cultural traditions, district council programmes and the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council, promotion of equality of opportunity, the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland, administration and other services, grants and grants in aid.	14,879,000	—
NORTHERN IRELAND ASSEMBLY
A. For expenditure of the Northern Ireland Assembly.	14,506,000	4,000
NORTHERN IRELAND AUDIT OFFICE
A. For expenditure of the Northern Ireland Audit Office.	2,398,000	577,000
ASSEMBLY OMBUDSMAN FOR NORTHERN IRELAND AND NORTHERN IRELAND COMMISSIONER FOR COMPLAINTS
A. For expenditure by the Assembly Ombudsman for Northern Ireland and Northern Ireland Commissioner for Complaints.	526,000	—
TOTAL £	4,296,588,000	740,396,000

SCHEDULE 2 REPEALS

Short Title	Extent of repeal
The Appropriation (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (NI 4).	The whole Order.
The Appropriation (No. 2) (Northern Ireland) Order 1997 (NI 13).	The whole Order.