§ 51. Mr. H. WILLIAMSasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he is prepared, after 1st April, to arrange for the weekly Exchequer returns to show separately the expenditure in respect of the fighting Services, Civil Services and the Revenue Departments?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLThis analysis is made in the quarterly returns, but, as I informed the hon. Member on 19th March, 1925, to carry it into the weekly returns would be misleading. Issues from the Exchequer to the Paymaster-General 1839 in respect of the different Departments over short periods do not give any real indication of the actual expenditure of those Departments.
§ Mr. WILLIAMSIs not that equally true of the summary already published?
§ Mr. CHURCHILLOf course, the monthly returns suffer from the same defects as would attach to the detailed return for which the hon. Member has asked.