A subscription-based funding arrangement for BBC Monitoring was introduced in April 1997. BBC Monitoring reserves of £7.0 million (2000 £5.1 million) include amounts arising as a result of charging a return on capital employed to its stakeholder customers, together with other accumulated excesses of income over expenditure. There are limitations placed upon the use that BBC Monitoring can make of these funds and the return of some funds at some point in the future to HM Government remains a possibility.