HC Deb 22 February 1915 vol 70 cc47-50

Motion made, and Question proposed, "That a sum, not exceeding £36,853,000, be granted to His Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the Charges for the following Civil Services and Revenue Departments for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1916, namely:—

£
Class II.
Board of Trade 200,000
Class I.
Royal Palaces 27,000
Osborne 7,000
Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens 52,000
Houses of Parliament Buildings 34,000
Miscellaneous Legal Buildings, Great Britain 30,000
Art and Science Buildings, Great Britain 36,000
Diplomatic and Consular Buildings 25,000
Revenue Buildings 250,000
Insurance and Labour Exchange Buildings, Great Britain 85,000
Public Buildings, Great Britain 387,000
Surveys of the United Kingdom 125,000
Harbours under the Board of Trade 11,000
Peterhead Harbour 10,000
Rates on Government Property 425,000
Public Works and Buildings, Ireland 120,000
Railways, Ireland 10,000
Works for Relief of Unemployment
Mall Approach Improvement
Class II.
United Kingdom and England:
House of Lords Offices 20,000
House of Commons 90,000
Treasury and Subordinate Departments 45,000
Home Office 100,000
£
Foreign Office 32,000
Colonial Office 24,000
Privy Council Office 5,000
Mercantile Marine Services 70,000
Bankruptcy Department of the Board of Trade 5
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries 200,000
Charity Commission 14,000
Government Chemist 11,000
Civil Service Commission 25,000
Exchequer and Audit Department 26,000
Friendly Societies Registry 12,000
Local Government Board 127,000
Board of Control 68,000
Mint, including Coinage 15
National Debt Office 5,500
Public Record Office 11,000
Public Works Loan Commission 5
Registrar-General's Office 21,000
Stationery and Printing 500,000
Woods, Forests, etc., Office of 10,000
Works and Public Buildings, Office of 67,000
Secret Service 80,000
Scotland:
Secretary for Scotland, Office of 7,000
Board of Agriculture 25,000
Fishery Board 8,000
General Board of Control 12,000
Registrar-General's Office 3,500
Local Government Board 10,000
Ireland:
Lord Lieutenant's Household 2,500
Chief Secretary's Offices and Subordinate Departments 11,000
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction 85,000
Charitable Donations and Bequests Office 900
Congested Districts Board 64,000
Local Government Board 48,000
Public Record Office 2,500
Public Works Office 20,000
Registrar-General's Office 5,500
Valuation and Boundary Survey 15,000
Class III.
United Kingdom and England:
Law Charges 45,000
Miscellaneous Legal Expenses 26,000
Supreme Court of Judicature, etc 150,000
£
Land Registry 15,000
Public Trustee 5
County Courts 50,000
Police, England and Wales 50,000
Prisons, England and the Colonies 420,000
Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Great Britain 170,000
Criminal Lunatic Asylums, England 27,000
Scotland:
Law Charges and Courts of Law 35,000
Scottish Land Court 4,000
Register House, Edinburgh 18,000
Prisons 54,000
Ireland.
Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions 30,000
Supreme Court of Judicature, and other Legal Departments 47,000
Land Commission 315,000
County Court Officers, etc. 40,000
Dublin Metropolitan Police 65,000
Royal Irish Constabulary 680,000
Prisons 45,000
Reformatory and Industrial Schools 60,000
Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum 4,000
Class IV.
United Kingdom and England.
Board of Education 5,575,000
British Museum 70,000
National Gallery 7,000
National Portrait Gallery 2,500
Wallace Collection 3,500
London Museum 2,500
Scientific Investigation, etc. 42,000
Universities and Colleges, Great Britain, and Intermediate Education, Wales 105,000
Universities, etc., Special Grants
Scotland.
Public Education 1,000,000
National Galleries 2,600
Ireland.
Public Education 980,000
Intermediate Education, Ireland
Endowed Schools Commissioners 400
National Gallery 1,500
Science and Art 25,000
Universities and Colleges, Ireland 60,000
Class V.
£
Diplomatic and Consular Services 465,000
Colonial Services 125,000
Telegraph Subsidies and Pacific Cables 17,000
Cyprus (Grant in Aid) 49,000
Persian Loan
Albanian Loan
Class VI.
Superannuation and Retired Allowances 380,000
Miscellaneous Expenses 8,570
Hospitals and Charities, Ireland 16,000
Temporary Commissions 20,000
Repayments to the Local Loans Fund
Ireland Development Grant 180,000
International Exhibitions 2,000
Repayments to the Civil Contingencies Fund
Class VII.
Old Age Pensions 5,200,000
National Health Insurance Joint Committee 50,000
National Health Insurance Commission (England) 1,600,000
National Health Insurance Commission (Wales) 180,000
National Health Insurance Commission (Scotland) 300,000
National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland) 264,000
Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance 300,000
National Insurance Audit Department 50,000
Treatment of Tuberculosis (Special Grants) 150,000
Pathological Laboratories
Highlands and Islands (Medical Service) Board 2,000
Friendly Societies' Deficiency
Expenses under the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905
REVENUE DEPARTMENTS.
Customs and Excise 1,100,000
Inland Revenue 950,000
Post Office 11,500,000
Total for Civil Services and Revenue Departments £36,853,000

[NOTE.—The sum taken represents a provision for between four and five months' expenditure.]