§ 21. Sir N. GRATTAN-DOYLEasked 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. WILLIAMSThe 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.