HC Deb 17 April 1934 vol 288 cc887-8
58. Mr. GEORGE HALL

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if

The amounts paid in subsidies or subventions in each of the years mentioned are shown in the following Table:—
Financial Year. Civil Aviation (Comercial subsidies). Sugar Beet. Housing. Coal Industry. Total.
£ £ £ £ £
1920 … … — — 3,238,093 — 3,238,093
1921 … … 75,625 — 9,768,478 7,048,630 16,892,733
1922 … … 181,762 — 10,492,512 — 10,674,264
1923 … … 125,258 — 8,773,726 113 8,899,097
1924 … … 138,511 492,040 9,045,588 — 9,676,139
1925 … … 137,000 1,066,090 8,877,824 18,999,997 29,080,911
1926 … … 172,480 3,225,859 9,448,253 4,199,088 17,045,680
1927 … … 226,400 4,309,260 10,780,050 28,772 15,344,482
1928 … … 230,600 2,854,239 12,067,927 — 15,152,766
1929 … … 341,700 4,229,730 12,727,320 — 17,298,750
1930 … … 388,800 6,022,972 13,668,333 — 20,080,105
1931 … … 394,900 2,135,192 14,520,831 — 17,050,923
1932 … … 398,300 2,356,207 15,214,726 — 17,969,233
1933 (approx.) 400,000 3,332,910 15,299,916 — 19,032,826
Total … 3,211,326 30,024,499 153,923,527 30,276,600 217,436,002

he will issue a return, under various headings, of the amount of credits, grants, or cost to the State for trade facilities, export credits, unemployment grants, and any other forms of State expenditure designed to assist the unemployment problem, including the cost of unemployment insurance to the State, to employers and employed, together with the cost of transitional benefit paid for each year from 1920 to the latest available date?

Mr. HORE-BELISHA

The hon. Member will find full information about the services to which he refers specifically in Parliamentary Papers such as Appropriation Accounts, Trading Accounts and Special Returns; and I do not think the expense of compiling a separate return in the form desired by the hon. Member would be justified.

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