HC Deb 06 July 1944 vol 401 cc1413-5
Resolutions reported:
"I. Whereas it appears by the Navy Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st clay of March, 1943, that, as shown in the Schedule hereunto appended, the total surpluses and deficits on Navy Votes for that year are as follows:
£ s. d. £ s. d.
Total Surpluses, namely:
Surpluses of actual as compared with estimated receipts (Votes 2–6 and 8–16) — 36,493,279 8 4
Total Deficits, namely:
Deficiencies of actual as compared with estimated receipts (Votes 1 and 7) 37,875,574 4 7
Excesses of actual over estimated gross expenditure 591,708,473 8 9 629,584,047 13 4
Net Deficit (charged to the Vote of Credit) £593,090,768 5 0
And whereas the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application of surplus receipts realised under Votes 2 to 6 and 8 to 16 towards making good the deficit in receipts under Votes 1 and 7."
I. "That the application of such Surpluses be sanctioned."
[For details of Schedule see OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th June, 1944; Vol. 401, c. 964–969.]
Lieut.-Colonel Sir Cuthbert Headlam (Newcastle-upon-Tyne, North)

I beg to second the Amendment.

Mr. Hudson

The object of the lay-out of the Bill is that if you have a farmer producing milk and he produces as a sideline a small amount of butter or cheese, he has only to register with the Minister and he is only inspected by one inspector. The effect of the Amendment would be that a man who produces as a side-line a small amount of cheese or butter would have to register with the Minister of Agriculture as a dairy farmer and with the local authority as a factory, and the result would be that this farm would have to be inspected by two sets of inspectors. I am sure that that is not what my hon. Friend has in mind. I can assure him that the Clause was designed to secure that where the manufacture was only ancillary to the production of milk, the farmer would have to have only one inspection instead of two.

Mr. Petherick

In view of what the Minister has said, I beg to ask leave to withdraw the Amendment.

Amendment, by leave, withdrawn.

Bill read the Third time, and passed.

"II. Whereas it appears by the Army Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1943, that, as shown in the Schedule hereunto appended, the total surpluses and deficits on Army Votes for that year are as follows:
Total Surpluses, namely: £ s. d. £ s. d.
Surpluses of actual as compared with estimated receipts (Votes 2–15) 9,865,820 1 4
Total Deficits, namely:
Deficiencies of actual as compared with estimated receipts (Vote 1) 12,324,364 19 6
Excesses of actual over estimated gross expenditure 796,807,663 8 6 809,132,028 8 0
Net deficit (charged to the Vote of Credit) £799,266,208 6 8
And whereas the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application of surplus receipts realised under Votes 2 to 15 towards making good the deficit in receipts under Vote 1."
2. "That the application of such Surpluses be sanctioned."
[For details of Schedule see OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th June, 5944; Vol. 401, c. 964–969.]
"III. Whereas it appears by the Air Services Appropriation Account for the year ended the 31st day of March, 1943, that, as shown in the Schedule hereunto appended, the total surpluses and deficits on Air Votes for that year are as follows:
Total Surpluses, namely: £ s. d. £ s. d.
Surpluses of actual as compared with estimated receipts (Votes 2–11) 42,995,051 4 5
Total Deficits, namely:
Deficiencies of actual as compared with estimated receipts (Vote 1) 51,571,256 10 2
Excesses of actual over estimated gross expenditure 454,866,264 10 0 506,437,521 0 2
Net Deficit (charged to the Vote of Credit) £463,442,469 15 9
And whereas the Lords Commissioners of His Majesty's Treasury have temporarily authorised the application of surplus receipts realised under Votes 2 to II towards making good the deficit in receipts under Vote 1."
3. "That the application of such Surpluses be sanctioned."
[For details of Schedule see OFFICIAL REPORT, 30th June, 1944; Vol. 401, c. 964–969.]

Resolutions agreed to.