HC Deb 05 April 1875 vol 223 cc319-22

SUPPLY—considered in Committee.

(In the Committee.)

(1.) That a sum, not exceeding £2,039,300, be granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the Charge for the following-Civil Services, to the 31st day of March 1876: viz.

Class I.
Great Britain:— £
Royal Palaces 5,200
Royal Parks 18,000
Public Buildings 23,000
Furniture of Public Offices 2,600
Houses of Parliament 5,100
New Home and Colonial Offices 3,800
Sheriff Court Houses, Scotland 2,400
National Gallery Enlargement 2,300
Burlington House 500
Post Office and Inland Revenue Buildings 26,000
British Museum Buildings 1,500
County Courts 6,700
Science and Art Department 1,600
Surveys of the United Kingdom 22,200
Harbours of Refuge 1,300
Metropolitan Fire Brigade 2,500
Rates on Government Property 38,900
Wellington Monument 500
Natural History Museum 13,300
Metropolitan Police Courts 1,100
New Courts of Justice, &c. 12,700
Ramsgate Harbour 100
New Palace at Westminster—Acquisition of Lands, &c. 1,600
Ireland:—
Public Buildings 29,500
Abroad:—
Lighthouses Abroad 2,900
Embassy Houses and Consular Buildings 11,900
Class II.
England:—
House of Lords, Offices 7,300
House of Commons, Offices 8,300
Treasury and Subordinate Departments 9,500
£
Home Office and Subordinate Departments 14,600
Foreign Office 10,100
Colonial Office 5,500
Privy Council Office and Subordinate Departments 5,800
Board of Trade and Subordinate Departments 21,100
Privy Seal Office 500
Charity Commission (including Endowed Schools Department) 5,500
Civil Service Commission 3,600
Copyhold, Inclosure, and Tithe Commission 3,100
Inclosure and Drainage Acts Expenses 1,400
Exchequer and Audit Department 7,500
Friendly Societies, Registrars of 500
Local Government Board 116,000
Lunacy Commission 2,500
Mint 9,000
National Debt Office 2,800
Patent Office 3,600
Paymaster General's Office 3,800
Public Record Office 3,800
Public Works Loan Commission 800
Register Office, General 7,500
Stationery Office and Printing 80,000
Woods, Forests, &c, Office of 4,100
Works and Public Buildings, Office of 7,400
Secret Service 4,000
Scotland:—
Exchequer and other Offices 1,000
Fishery Board 2,000
Lunacy Commission 1,000
Register Office, General 1,100
Board of Supervision 13,300
Ireland:—
Lord Lieutenant's Household 1,100
Chief Secretary's Office 4,400
Boundary Survey 100
Charitable Donations and Bequests Office 300
Local Government Board 18,300
Public Record Office 900
Public Works Office 4,600
Register Office, General 3,100
General Survey and Valuation 3,600
Pauper Lunatics 20,000
Class III.
England:—
Law Charges 8,900
Criminal Prosecutions 30,000
Court of Chancery 28,800
Common Law Courts 10,300
Court of Bankruptcy 8,600
County Courts 66,600
Probate and Divorce Courts 15,000
Admiralty Court Registry 2,000
Land Registry Office 900
Police Courts, London and Sherness 2,300
Metropolitan Police 100,000
County and Borough Police, Great Britain 1,000
Convict Establishments in England and the Colonies 74,000
County Prisons, Great Britain 17,000
Reformatories and Industrial Schools, Great Britain 55,000
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum 5,000
Miscellaneous Legal Charges 3,100
Scotland:— £
Criminal Proceedings 11,400
Courts of Law and justice 9,800
Register House Departments 5,300
Prisons and Judicial Statistics 4,100
Ireland:—
Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions 13,000
Court of Chancery 7,200
Common Law Courts 4,500
Court of Bankruptcy and Insolvency 1,500
Landed Estates Court 2,000
Probate Court 1,900
Admiralty Court Registry 300
Registry of Deeds 3,000
Registry of Judgments 500
Dublin Metropolitan Police 22,500
Constabulary 178,000
Government Prisons 6,800
County Prisons and Reformatories. 15,000
Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum 1,000
Miscellaneous Legal Charges 11,600
Class IV.
Great Britain:—
Public Education 258,000
Science and Art Department 47,700
British Museum 17,900
National Gallery 1,000
National Portrait Gallery 300
Learned Societies, &c. 2,000
University of London 1,600
Scotland:—
Public Education 59,000
Board of Education 1,000
Universities, &c. in Scotland 3,000
National Gallery, Scotland 400
Ireland:—
Public Education 75,700
Commissioners of Education (Endowed Schools) 100
National Gallery 400
Royal Irish Academy 300
Queen's University 700
Queen's Colleges 700
Class V.
Diplomatic Services 30,000
Consular Services 41,300
Colonies, Grants in Aid 7,100
Orange River Territory and St. Helena 600
Slave Trade, Commissions for Suppression of 600
Tonnage Bounties, &c. 2,000
Emigration 900
Treasury Chest 800
Class VI.
Superannuation and Retired Allowances 70,000
Merchant Seamen's Fund Pensions, &c. 6,100
Relief of Distressed British Seamen. 5,000
Hospitals and Infirmaries, Ireland 3,100
Miscellaneous Charitable Allowances,&c. Great Britain 800
Miscellaneous Charitable Allowances,&c. Ireland 800
Class VII. £
Temporary Commissions 3,100
Deep Sea Exploring Expedition 600
Arctic Expedition 200
Miscellaneous Expenses 1,000
£2,039,300

(2.) That a sum, not exceeding£1,282,000, be granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the Charge for the following Revenue Departments to the 31st day of March, 1876, viz.—

£
Customs 166,000
Inland Revenue 282,000
Post Office 506,000
Post Office Packet Service. 146,000
Post Office Telegraphs 182,000
£1,282,000

(3.) £150,000, Army Purchase Commission.

MR. GATHORNE HARDY

explained that this was in reality a Civil Service Estimate of which cine Notice had boon given.

Vote agreed to.