HC Deb 01 August 1900 vol 87 cc376-83

Considered in Committee.

(In the Committee.)

That it appears by the Navy Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1899, and the statement appended thereto, as follows, viz.:—

  1. (a) That the gross expenditure for certain Navy Services exceeded the estimate of such expenditure by a total sum of £637,516 8s. 3d., as shown in column No. 1 of the Schedule hereto appended; 377 Navy Services fell short of the estimate Majesty's Treasury have temporarily of such receipts by a total sum of£825,980 6s. 6d. as shown in column No. 2 of the said appended Schedule, so that the gross actual expenditure for the whole of the Navy Services fell short of the gross estimated expenditure by the net sum of £188,463 18s. 3d.
  2. (b.) That the receipts in aid of certain Navy Services fell short of the estimate of such receipts by a total sum of £6,853 13s. 15d., as shown in Column No. 3 of the said appended Schedule; while the receipts in aid of other Navy Services exceeded the estimate of such receipts by a total sum of £65,914 3s. 3d., as shown in Column No. 4 of the said appended Schedule; so that the total actual receipts in aid of the Grants for Navy Services exceeded the total estimated receipts by the net sum of £59,060 9s. 10d.

SCHEDULE.
Number of Vote. Navy Services 1898–99. Votes. Gross Expenditure. Appropriations in Aid.
Excesses of Actual over Estimated Cross Expenditure. Surpluses of Estimated over Actual Gross Expenditure. Deficiencies of Actual as compared with Estimated Receipts. Surpluses of Actual as compared with Estimated Receipts.
1. 2. 3. 4.
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
1 … Wages, etc., of Officers, Seamen, and Boys, Coast Guard, and Royal Marines … 52,038 12 0 2,039 1 1
2 … Victualling and Clothing for the Navy 95,269 14 4 … … 3,698 12 11
3 … Medical Establishments and Services … 551 11 11 … 636 9 6
4 … Martial Law 719 3 2 … … 40 8 4
5 … Educational Services … 1,422 8 6 … 161 11 9
6 … Scientific Services 2,897 18 0 … … 5,423 0 7
7 … Royal Naval Reserves … 13,683 11 1 … 188 13 1
8 … Shipbuilding, Repairs, Maintenance, etc.:
Sec. 1 … Personnel 191,318 6 8 … 12 7
Sec. 2 … Materiel 192,715 5 7 … … 43,268 14 0
Sec. 3 … Contract Work … 749,758 9 6 2,053 13 10
9 … Naval Armaments … 8,525 13 6 73 15 11
10 … Works, Buildings, and Repairs at Home and Abroad 91,241 9 9 … … 10,752 7 3

(c.) That the resulting differences between the Exchequer Grants for Navy Services and the net expenditure are as follows, viz.:—

£ s. d.
Total Surpluses … 825,325 12 7
Total Deficits … 577,801 4 6
Net Surplus … £247,524 8 1

That the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application, in reduction of the net charge on Exchequer Grants for certain Navy Services, of the whole of the sums received in excess of the estimated Appropriations in Aid, in respect of the same Services; and have also temporarily authorised the application of so much of the said total surpluses on certain Grants for Naval Services as is necessary to cover the said total deficits on other Grants for Navy Services.

1. Resolved, That the application of such sums be sanctioned.

Number of Vote. Navy Services, 1898-99. Votes. Gross Expenditure. Appropriations in Aid.
Excesses of Actual over Estimated Gross Expenditure. Surpluses of Estimated over Actual Gross Expenditure. Deficiencies of Actual as compared with Estimated Receipts. Surpluses of Actual as compared with Estimated Receipts.
1. 2. 3. 4.
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
11 … Miscellaneous Effective Services 32,862 19 2 … … 1,553 16 2
12 … Admiralty Office 500 5 8 … … 1 17 9
13 … Half-pay, Reserved and Retired Pay 18,169 4 5 … 954 1 6
14 … Naval and Marine Pensions, Gratuities, and Compassionate Allowances 4,491 9 11 … 1,246 8 6
15 … Civil Pensions and Gratuities 4,633 1 5 … … 188 11 11
16 … Additional Naval Force for Service in Australasian Waters 42 16 0 … 486 0 0
Amount written off as irrecoverable 2,654 14 2
637,516 8 3 825,980 6 6 6,853 13 5 65,914 3 3
Net Surplus, £188,463 18 3 Net Surplus, £59,060 9 10
Surplus surrendered to the Exchequer £247,524 8 1

That it appears by the Army Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1899 (as corrected by the Second Report of the Committee of Public Accounts of the present Session), and the statement appended thereto, as follows, viz.:—

  1. (a.) That the gross expenditure for certain Army Services exceeded the estimate of such expenditure by a total sum of £268,594 1s. 9d., as shown in Column No. 1 of the Schedule hereto appended; while the gross expenditure for other Army Services fell short of the estimate of such expenditure by a total sum of £100,615 14s. 2d., as shown in Column No. 2 of the said appended Schedule; so that the gross actual expenditure for the whole of the Army Services exceeded the gross estimated expenditure by the net sum of £167,978 7s. 7d.
  2. (b.) That the receipts in aid of certain Army Services fell short of the estimate of such receipts by a total sum of 380 £48,828 14s. 6d., as shown in Column No. 3 of the said appended Schedule; while the receipts in aid of other Army Services exceeded the Estimate of such receipts by a total sum of £226,126 0s. 9d., as shown in Column No. 4 of the said appended Schedule; so that the total actual receipts in aid of the Grants for Army Services exceeded the total estimated receipts by the net sum of £177,297 6s. 3d.
  3. (c.) That the resulting differences between the Exchequer Grants for Army Services and the net expenditure are as follows, viz.:—
£ s. d.
Total Surpluses … 278,806 12 5
Total Deficits … 269,487 13 9
Net Surplus … £9,318 18 8

That by a Vote of Parliament during the present Session (House of Commons Paper, No. 90, of 1900) a further sum of £100 has been granted for the expenditure of the year 1898–9, and the appro- priation of additional receipts in aid ofsuch expenditure has been sanctioned to the amount of £168,070 2s. 6d.

That the Lords Commissioners of Her Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application of so much of

SCHEDULE.
No. of vote. Army Services, 1898–99. Votes. Gross Expenditure. Appropriations in Aid.
Excesses of Actual over Estimated Cross Expenditure. Surpluses of Estimated over Actual Gross Expenditure. Deficiencies of Actual as compared with Estimated Receipts. Surpluses of Actual as compared with Estimated Receipts.
1. 2. 3. 4.
£ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d. £ s. d.
1 Pay, etc., of Army (General Staff, Regiments, Reserve, and Departments) 29,358 10 11 … … 100,529 17 8
2 Medical Establishments: Pay, etc 35,054 5 1 … 55 13 11
3 Militia: Pay, Extra Pay, Bounty, etc. … 6,354 14 6 319 5 8
4 Yeomanry Cavalry: Pay and Allowances 1,489 17 9 … … 1 8 10
5 Volunteer Corps: Pay and Allowances … 1,840 2 1 … 743 18 2
6 Transport and Remounts 119,933 3 0 … … 9,950 19 8
7 Provisions, Forage, and other Supplies … 45,524 2 1 … 22,810 6 0
8 Clothing Establishments and Services 74,108 15 0 … … 8,251 0 11
9 Warlike and other Stores: Supply and Repair … 17,716 17 6 … 58,131 3 11
10 Works, Buildings, and Repairs: Cost, including Staff for Engineer Services 1,872 14 3 … 48,384 14 2
11 Establishments for Military Education … 2,332 10 4 … 2,063 8 1
12 Miscellaneous Effective Services 404 5 5 … … 53 16 6
13 War Office: Salaries and Miscellaneous Charges … 1,815 12 7 … 347 4 11
14 Non-effective Charges for Officers, etc … 20,619 8 5 … 19,327 0 0
15 Non-effective Charges for Men, etc. … 4,412 6 8 … 3,915 16 1
16 Superannuation, Compensation, and Compassionate Allowances 6,132 0 7 … 69 0 9
Balances irrecoverable 240 9 9
268,594 1 9 100,615 14 2 48,828 14 6 226,126 0 9
Add Excess Vote … 100 0 0
100,715 14 2
Net Deficit, £167,878 7 7 Net Surplus, £177,297 6 3
Net Surplus £9,418 18 8
—(Mr. Hanbury)

the said total surpluses on certain Grants for Army Services as is necessary to cover the said total deficits on other Grants for Army Services.

2. Resolved, That the application of sums be sanctioned.

Resolutions to be reported To-morrow.