§ 48. Mr. RHYS DAVIESasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will explain the reduction of £13,000, from £162,000 to £149,000, in the estimated grant on account of Health Services, as set forth in Table B, page 9, of the Financial Statement, 1933–34?
Mr. CHAMBERLAINThe item in the tables to which the hon. Member refers is made up of 10 small grants for certain health services not absorbed in the general block grants under the Local Government Act, 1929. Some of these grants show increases and some decreases. The main reason for the net decrease of £13,000 is a decrease of £12,490 in the capital grants for sanatoria on the practical completion in 1932 of the liquidation of commitments which remained to be met when the main scheme of capital grants ceased in 1921.