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Resolution reported,
That towards making good the Supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1941, the sum of £1,011,663,500 be granted out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom."—[Captain Crookshank.]
§ Mr. Deputy-Speaker (Colonel Clifton Brown)I have to read out the following: I understand that, by an oversight, a discrepancy has occurred between the sum voted last week in Committee of Ways and Means and the corresponding sums voted in Committee of Supply. The sum voted in the Committee of Ways and Means includes authority for the Supplementary Vote of Credit for which sanction has already been obtained by the Consolidated Fund (No. 3) Bill. It is my duty to see that the figures for Supply and Ways and Means correspond, and accordingly an Amendment will be required for this purpose before the Ways and. Means Resolution is agreed to.
§ The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Captain Crookshank)I beg to move, to leave out "£1,011,663,500," and to insert instead thereof "£11,661,000."
I will add for the information of the House that this sum which I propose should be inserted, takes account not only of the necessity for omitting the £1,000,000,000 to which you have referred, Mr. Deputy-Speaker, but also a grant of £2,500, which is a Supplementary Grant for the Foreign Office, proposed in Committee of Supply, with which it has been decided not to proceed at present.
§ Amendment agreed to.
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Resolved,
That towards making good the Supply granted to His Majesty for the service of the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1941, the sum of £11,661,000 be granted out of the Consolidated Fund of the United Kingdom.
§ Bill ordered to be brought in upon the said Resolution by the Chairman of Ways and Means, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and Captain Crookshank.