§ MR. WEIRTo ask Mr. Chancellor of the Exchequer, having regard to the fact that the unexpended balances of Votes surrendered to the Exchequer by Government Departments during the last ten years amount to £11,613,119 19s. 9d., will he state how much of this sum represents Scottish and Irish Votes respectively, irrespective of the Post Office and Inland Revenue Departments.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) The unexpended balances surrendered to the Exchequer on Scottish Votes in the last ten years amounted to £204,013 15s. 6d., and on Irish Votes to £718,136 7s. 11d. These figures relate only to Votes which provide exclusively for Scottish and Irish Services. They omit not only the Votes for the Post Office and Revenue Departments, but all other Votes of a general character.