§ Considered in Committee.
§ [Colonel CLIFTON BROWN in the Chair.]
§ "1. Whereas it appears by the Army Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1939, that the aggregate Expenditure on Army Services has not exceeded the aggregate sums appropriated for those Services and that, as shown in the Schedule hereto appended, the net surplus of the Exchequer Grants for Army Services over the net Expenditure is £838,468 15s. 5d., namely:—
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| Total Surpluses | … | 3,588,962 | 14 | 7 |
| Total Deficits | … | 2,750,493 | 19 | 2 |
| Net Surplus | … | £838,468 | 15 | 5 |
§ And whereas the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application of so much of the said total surpluses on certain Grants for Army Services as is necessary to make good the said total deficits on other Grants for Army Services.
529| SCHEDULE. | |||||||||||||
| No. of Vote. | Army Services, 1938, Votes. | Deficits. | Surpluses. | ||||||||||
| Excesses of actual over estimated gross Expenditure. | Deficiencies of actual as compared with estimated Receipts. | Surpluses of estimated over actual gross Expenditure. | Surpluses of actual as compared with estimated Receipts. | ||||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| 1 | Pay, etc., of the Army | — | — | 243,435 | 4 | 7 | 15,352 | 8 | 2 | ||||
| 2 | Territorial Army and Reserve Forces. | 108,402 | 17 | 6 | 220 | 1 | 3 | — | — | ||||
| 3 | Medical Services | — | 1,532 | 11 | 10 | 17,726 | 8 | 4 | — | ||||
| 4 | Educational Establishments. | — | — | 24,363 | 6 | 6 | 3,834 | 15 | 2 | ||||
| 5 | Quartering and Movements | 262,339 | 3 | 10 | — | — | 7,777 | 11 | 2 | ||||
| 6 | Supplies, Road Transport, and Remounts. | — | — | 227,590 | 3 | 3 | 15,299 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 7 | Clothing | 4,746 | 12 | 10 | — | — | 21,537 | 11 | 11 | ||||
| 8 | General Stores | 47,774 | 19 | 3 | — | — | 29,634 | 14 | 7 | ||||
| 9 | Warlike Stores | — | 1,498,401 | 17 | 8 | 1,609,210 | 13 | 7 | — | ||||
| 10 | Works, Buildings, and Lands. | — | 774,915 | 19 | 8 | 1,354,914 | 3 | 1 | — | ||||
| 11 | Miscellaneous Effective Services. | 24,241 | 9 | 1 | 4,539 | 14 | 2 | — | — | ||||
| 12 | War Office | — | 1,870 | 18 | 2 | 14,976 | 4 | 0 | — | ||||
| 13 | Half-Pay, Retired Pay, and other Non-effective Charges for Officers. | 3,445 | 16 | 11 | 835 | 2 | 10 | — | — | ||||
| 14 | Pensions and other Non-effective Charges for Warrant Officers, Noncommissioned Officers, Men, and others. | 150 | 15 | 9 | — | — | 3,310 | 9 | 2 | ||||
| 15 | Civil Superannuation, Compensation, and Gratuities. | 13,686 | 13 | 4 | 159 | 15 | 8 | — | — | ||||
| — | Balances irrecoverable and Claims abandoned. | 3,229 | 9 | 5 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 468,017 | 17 | 11 | 2,282,476 | 1 | 3 | 3,492,216 | 3 | 4 | 96,746 | 11 | 3 | ||
| Total Deficits £2,750,493 19 2 | Total Surpluses £3,588,962 14 7 | ||||||||||||
| Net Surplus | … | £838,468 15 5" |
§
Resolved, "That the application of such sums be sanctioned."—[Captain
Crookshank.]
II. Whereas it appears by the Air Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day
of March, 1939, that the aggregate Expenditure on Air Services has not exceeded the aggregate
sums appropriated for those Services and that, as shown in the Schedule hereto appended, the net
surplus of the Exchequer Grants for Air Services over the net Expenditure is £72,181 10s.
1d., namely:—
530
| £ | s. | d. | ||
| Total Surpluses | … | 1,005,621 | 15 | 7 |
| Total Deficits | … | 933,440 | 5 | 6 |
| Net Surplus | … | £72,181 | 10 | 1 |
And whereas the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application of so much of the said total surpluses on certain Grants for Air Services as is necessary to make good the said total deficits on other Grants for Air Services.531
| SCHEDULE. | |||||||||||||
| No. of Vote. | Army Services, 1938, Votes. | Deficits. | Surpluses. | ||||||||||
| Excesses of actual over estimated gross Expenditure. | Deficiencies of actual as compared with estimated Receipts. | Surpluses of estimated over actual gross Expenditure. | Surpluses of actual as compared with estimated Receipts. | ||||||||||
| £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | £ | s. | d. | ||
| 1 | Pay, etc., of the Royal Air Force. | — | — | 22,945 | 10 | 2 | 8,422 | 11 | 9 | ||||
| 2 | Quartering, Non-technical Stores, Supplies and Transportation. | — | — | 25,827 | 15 | 1 | 10,543 | 5 | 5 | ||||
| 3 | Technical and Warlike Stores (including Experimental and Research Services). | 647,134 | 15 | 2 | 113,471 | 19 | 0 | — | — | ||||
| 4 | Works, Buildings, and Lands. | 112,984 | 12 | 3 | — | — | 14,688 | 11 | 5 | ||||
| 5 | Medical Services | — | — | 28,701 | 10 | 0 | 528 | 17 | 5 | ||||
| 6 | Technical Training and Educational Services. | — | 870 | 1 | 2 | 75,549 | 17 | 1 | — | ||||
| 7 | Reserve and Auxiliary Forces. | — | 305 | 16 | 5 | 291,764 | 14 | 8 | — | ||||
| 8 | Civil Aviation | — | — | 307,982 | 12 | 7 | 15,337 | 12 | 5 | ||||
| 9 | Meteorological and Miscellaneous Effective Services. | — | — | 180,355 | 1 | 0 | 2,632 | 13 | 11 | ||||
| 10 | Air Ministry | 51,489 | 0 | 7 | — | — | 3,511 | 10 | 4 | ||||
| 11 | Half-Pay, Pensions, and other Non-effective Services. | — | — | 16,248 | 10 | 7 | 581 | 1 | 9 | ||||
| — | Balances irrecoverable and Claims abandoned. | 7,184 | 0 | 11 | — | — | — | ||||||
| 818,792 | 8 | 11 | 114,647 | 16 | 7 | 949,375 | 11 | 2 | 56,246 | 4 | 5 | ||
| Total Deficits £933,440 5 6 | Total Surpluses £1,005,621 15 7 | ||||||||||||
| Net Surplus | … | £72,181 10 1" |
§ Resolved, "That the application of such sums be sanctioned."—[Captain Crookshank.]
§ Resolutions to be reported upon Tuesday next.