HC Deb 31 July 1906 vol 162 cc870-6

Resolutions reported.

Whereas it appears by the Navy Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1905, 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 £415,439 18s. 8d., as shown in Column No. 1 of the Schedule hereto appended, while the gross expenditure for other Navy Services fell short of the estimate of such expenditure by a total sum of £449,539 13s. 7d., 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 £34,099 14s. 11d.
  2. (b) That the receipts in aid of certain Grants for Navy Services fell short of the total estimated receipts by the sum of £80,479 6s. 10d., 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 £76,198 8s. 9d., 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 fell short of the total estimated receipts by the net sum of £4,280 18s. 1d.
  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 455,107 18 8
Total Deficits 425,289 1 10
Net Surplus £29,818 16 10

And whereas the Lords Commissioners of His 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 Appropriation-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 Navy Services as is necessary to cover the said total deficits on other Grants for Navy Services.

Schedule
Number of Vote. Navy Services, 1904–5. 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.
1 Wages, &c., of Officers, Seamen, and Boys, Coast Guard, and Royal Marines 67,474 12 8 — 27,310 2 9 —
2 Victualling and Clothing for the Navy — 4,869 8 7 — 13,109 9 4
3 Medical Establishments and Services — 11,525 9 9 1,689 19 2 —
4 Martial Law — 1,094 17 11 3 17 10 —
5 Educational Services — 12,944 6 2 — 3,310 8 11
6 Scientific Services 4,167 15 5 — — 8,634 10 5
7 Royal Naval Reserves — 26,290 0 8 669 9 2 —
8 Shipbuilding, Repairs, Maintenance, &c.:
Sec. 1 Personnel — 23,824 18 8 — 803 14 6
Sec. 2 Materiel 224,212 8 9 — — 26,823 8 1
Sec. 3 Contract Work — 279,759 11 0 37,273 4 9 —
9 Naval Armaments — 11,028 19 9 — 19,155 8 7
10 Works, Buildings and Repairs at Home and Abroad — 78,202 1 1 — 4,367 19 8
11 Miscellaneous Effective Services 82,354 11 5 — 3,912 19 0 —
12 Admiralty Office 1,751 7 1 — — 2 9 3
13 Half-Pay, Reserved and Retired Pay 5,584 1 3 — 4,103 10 6 —
14 Naval and Marine Pensions, Gratuities, and Compassionate Allowances. 5,604 12 10 — 5,436 16 9 —
15 Civil Pensions and Gratuities 22,235 13 11 — 79 6 11 —
Amount written off as irrecoverable 2,054 15 4 — — —
415,439 18 8 449,539 13 7 80,479 6 10 76,198 8 9
Net Surplus, £34,099 14 11 Net Deficit, £4,280 18 1

Whereas it appears by the Army Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March 1905, 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 £256,367 3s. 3d., 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 £365,574 5s. 6d., as shown in Column No. 2 of the said appended Schedule; so that the gross actual expenditure for the whole of the Army Services fell short of the gross estimate expenditure by the net sum of£109,207 2s. 3d.
  2. (b) That the receipts in aid of certain

1. "That the application of such sums be sanctioned."

Army Services fell short of the estimate of such receipts by a total sum of £8,475 7s. 10d., 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 £383,643 16s. 2d., 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 £375,168 8s. 4d.

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

£ s. d.
Total Surpluses 701,636 8 5
Total Deficits 217,260 17 10
Net Surplus £484,375 10 7

And whereas the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application, in reduction of the net charge on Exchequer Grants for certain Army Services, of the whole of the sums received in excess of the estimated Appropriation-in-Aid in respect of the same Services, and have also temporarily authorised the applica-

Schedule
Number of Vote. Army Services, 1904–1905. 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.
1 Pay, &c., of Army (General Staff, Regiments, Reserve, and Departments) — 166,856 6 11 — 7,751 1 11
2 Medical Establishments: Pay, &c. — 223 19 2 — 5,037 6 7
3 Militia: Pay, Bounty, &c. — 58,279 1 9 2,527 15 9 —
4 Imperial Yeomanry: Pay and Allowances — 46,175 10 3 — 770 11 2
5 Volunteer Corps: Pay and Allowances 12,562 16 5 — — 567 5 8
6 Transport and Remounts — 2,777 12 6 — 269,809 12 1
7 Provisions, Forage, and other Supplies 115,062 16 11 — — 15,128 14 8
8 Clothing Establishments, and Services — 22,939 19 10 — 1,968 3 8
9 Warlike and other Stores: Supply and Repair 10,285 12 6 — — 31,117 2 3
10 Works, Buildings, and Repairs: Cost, including Staff for Engineer Services — 33,771 18 3 — 22,350 11 8
11 Establishments for Military Education 2,211 14 11 — 4,527 10 8 —
12 Miscellaneous Effective Services 7,617 12 3 — — 2,647 11 9
13 War Office: Salaries and Miscellaneous 39,458 7 8 — 1,357 7 8 —
14 Non-effective Charges for Officers, &c. — 24,735 1 8 — 10,133 15 7
15 Non-effective Charges for Men, &c. 35,675 15 9 — — 16,361 19 2
16 Civil Superannuation, Compensation, and Compassionate Allowances — 4,814 15 2 62 13 9 —
Balances irrecoverable 33,492 6 10 — — —
256,367 3 3 365,574 5 6 8,475 7 10 383,643 16 2
Net Surplus, £109,207 2 3 Net Surplus, £375,168 8 4
Surplus surrendered to the Exchequer … £484,375 10s. 7d.

Resolutions read a second time.

[First Resolution agreed to.]

Second Resolution:

tion of so much of 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. "That the application of such sums be sanctioned."

Motion made, and Question put, "That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution."

The House divided: Ayes, 156; Noes, 11. (Division List No. 298.)

AYES.
Acland, Francis Dyke Baring, Godfrey (Isle of Wight Barran, Rowland Hirst
Alden, Percy Barlow, Percy (Bedford) Beaumont, W. C. B. (Hexham)
Armitage, R. Barnard, E. B. Beck, A. Cecil
Benn,W.(T'W'r Hamlets,S.Geo. Healy, Timothy Michael Pearce, Robert (Staffs, Leek)
Bertram, Julius Hedges, A. Paget Price, C.E.(Edinburgh,Central)
Billson, Alfred Helme, Norval Watson Radford, G. H.
Bottomley, Horatio Henderson, Arthur (Durham) Rainy, A. Holland
Roulton, A. C. F. (Ramsey) Higham, John Sharp Redmond, John E. (Waterford)
Brace, William Hobart, Sir Robert Renton, Major Leslie
Bryce, J.A.(Inverness Burghs) Hope, W. Bateman(Somerset,N. Richards,Thomas (W.Monm'th
Burns, Rt. Hon. John Horniman, Emslie John Rickett, J. Compton
Burnyeat, W. J. D. Illingworth, Percy H. Robertson, J. M. (Tyneside)
Byles, William Pollard Johnson, W. (Nuneaton) Robinson, S.
Cairns, Thomas Jones,William (Carnarvonshire Russell, T. W.
Carr-Gomm, H. W. Kekewich, Sir George Samuel, Herbert L.(Cleveland)
Clough, W. King, Alfred John (Knutsford) Scott,A.H.(Ashton under Lyne
Coats,Sir T.Glen(Renfrew, W.) Limb, Ernest H. (Rochester) Seaverns, J. H.
Cobbold, Felix Thornley Lambert, George Shackleton, David James
Condon, Thomas Joseph Lamont, Norman Shaw, Rt. Hon. T.(Hawick B.)
Corbett,C.H.(Sussex,E.Grinst'd Leese,Sir Joseph F.(Accrington Sheehy, David
Cornwall, Sir Edwin A. Lever,A.Levy (Essex,Harwich) Shipman, Dr. John G.
Cowan, W. H. Levy, Maurice Silcock, Thomas Ball
Cox, Harold Lewis, John Herbert Simon, John Allsebrook
Craig, Herbert J. (Tynemouth) Lough, Thomas Smeaton, Donald Mackenzie
Cullinan, J. Lundon, W. Smyth, Thomas F.(Leitrim, S.)
Davies, Timothy (Fulham) Lupton, Arnold Stanley,Hn. A. Lyulph (Chesh.)
Duckworth, James Lyell, Charles Henry Strachey, Sir Edward
Dunn, A. Edward (Camborne) Macdonald, J. R. (Leicester) Strauss, E. A. (Abingdon)
Dunne,Major E.Martin(Walsall MacVeagh, Jeremiah (Down, S. Stuart, James (Sunderland)
Edwards, Clement (Denbigh) MacVeigh,Charles (Donegal,E.) Sullivan, Donal
Edwards, Frank (Radnor) M'Kenna, Reginald Sutherland, J. E.
Elibank, Master of M'Killop, W. Taylor, John W. (Durham)
Everett, R. Lacey Mansfield, H. Randall (Lincoln) Thomas,Sir A.(Glamorgan, E.)
Fenwick, Charles Marks, G.Croydon (Launceston) Thompson, J.W.H.(Somerset,E
Ferens, T.R. Menzies, Walter Tomkinson, James
Ferguson, R. C. Munro Micklem, Nathaniel Toulmin, George
Fiennes, Hon. Eustace Mond, A. Verney, F. W.
Findlay, Alexander Montagu, E. S. Walsh, Stephen
Flavin, Michael Joseph Montgomery, H. G. Watt, H. Anderson
Fuller, John Michael F. Mooney, J. J. White, George (Norfolk)
Gill, A. H. Morgan, G. Hay (Cornwall) White, J. D. (Dumbartonshire)
Gladstone,Rt.Hn. Herbert John Morse, L. L. Whitehead, Rowland
Glendinning, R. G. Murphy, John Whitley, J. H. (Halifax)
Glover, Thomas Nicholls, George Williams, J. (Glamorgan)
Goddard, Daniel Ford Nicholson,CharlesN.(Doncast'r Williams,Llewelyn(Carmarth'n
Griffith, Ellis J. Nolan, Joseph Wilson, Henry J. (York, W.R.)
Gulland, John W. Norman, Henry Wilson, J.W.(Worcestersh, N.)
Hardie,J.Keir(Merthyr Tydvil) Norton, Capt. Cecil William Winfrey, R.
Harvey, A. G. C. (Rochdale) O'Brien,Kendal(Tipperary Mid
Haslam, Lewis (Monmouth) O'Connor, John (Kildare, N.) TELLERS FOR THE AYES—Mr.
Haworth, Arthur A. O'Connor, T. P. (Liverpool) Whiteley and Mr. J. A.
Hayden, John Patrick O'Donnell, C. J. (Walworth) Pease.
Hazel, Dr. A. E. O'Grady, J.
Hazleton, Richard O'Mara, James
NOES.
Arkwright, John Stanhope Hill,Henry Staveley (Staff'sh.) Thomson,W. Mitchell-(Lanark)
Banbury;Sir Frederick George Marks, H. H. (Kent)
Forster, Henry William Pease,Herbert Pike(Darlington TELLERS FOR THE NOES—Sir
Gibbs, G. A. (Bristol, West) Sloan, Thomas Henry George Doughty and Mr.
Gordon, J.(Londonderry,South Starkey, John R. Claude Hay.

Bill read a second time, and committed for to-morrow.