HC Deb 20 November 1928 vol 222 c1526
21. Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLE

asked the President of the Board of Trade what has been the surplus of revenue over expenditure of the Patent Office in each year from 1922?

Mr. H. WILLIAMS

The surplus of receipts over expenditure as shown by the Annual Reports of the Comptroller-General of the Patent Office for the years 1922–27 was as follows:—1922,£74,074; 1923,£81,798; 1924, £75,203; 1925, £88,540; 1926, £98,813; 1927, £112,939.