§ Considered in Committee.
§ [Sir W. MITCHELL-THOMSON in the Chair.]
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Whereas it appears by the Air Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1921, and the statement appended thereto, that the aggregate expenditure on Air Services has not exceeded the aggregate sums appropriated for those Services, but that, as shown in the Schedule
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hereto appended, the total differences between the Exchequer Grants for Air Services and the net expenditure are as follows, namely:
| £ | s. | a. | |
| Total Surpluses | 2,357,297 | 6 | 3 |
| Total Deficits | 64,335 | 13 | 3 |
| Net Surplus | £2,292,961 | 13 | 0 |
| SCHEDULE. | ||||||||
| Air Services, 1920–21. | Differences between Exchequer Grants and Net Expenditure. | |||||||
| Number of Vote. | Votes. | Surpluses. | Deficits. | |||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | |||
| 1 | Pay. etc., of the Air Force | … | 116,839 | 0 | 11 | — | ||
| 2 | Quartering, Stores (except Technical), Supplies, Animals, and Transport. | 236,706 | 10 | 9 | — | |||
| 3 | Technical and Warlike Stores | … | 1,434,883 | 9 | 0 | — | ||
| 4 | Works, Buildings, and Lands | … | 388,670 | 17 | 2 | — | ||
| 5 | Air Ministry | … | 15,883 | 8 | 11 | — | ||
| 6 | Miscellaneous Effective Services | … | — | 17,677 | 19 | 7 | ||
| 7 | Half-Pay, Pensions, and other Non-Effective Services | … | 989 | 3 | 9 | — | ||
| 8 | Civil Aviation | … | 148,850 | 5 | 7 | — | ||
| 9 | Experimental and Research Services | … | 14,472 | 10 | 2 | — | ||
| Balances irrecoverable and Claims abandoned | … | — | 46,657 | 13 | 8 | |||
| Total | … | 2,357,297 | 6 | 3 | 64,335 | 13 | 3 | |
| Net Surplus | … | £2,292,961 13 0 |
§ Resolution to be reported To-morrow (Wednesday).