HC Deb 27 February 1946 vol 419 cc1934-8
1934
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IST ALLOTTED DAY
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Considered in Committee.
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[MAJOR MILNER in the Chair]
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CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS, 1946 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT)
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Motion made, and Question proposed,
"That a sum, not exceeding 865,885,000, be granted to His Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the charges for the following Civil and Revenue Departments (including Education and Broadcasting, Pensions, Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance and Assistance, Food and Supply Services, Roads and other grants and Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues) for the year ending on the 51st day of March, 1947, namely:
| CIVIL ESTIMATES |
| CLASS I |
|
£ |
| House of Lords Offices |
27,000 |
| House of Commons |
180,000 |
| Registration of Electors |
130,000 |
| Treasuryand Subordinate - |
|
| Departments |
837,000 |
| Privy Council Office |
7,500 |
1935
|
£ |
| Privy Seal Office |
3,500 |
| Charity Commission |
17,000 |
| Civil Service Commission |
73,000 |
| Exchequer and Audit Department |
109,500 |
| Government Actuary |
13,000 |
| Government Chemist |
47,000 |
| Government Hospitality |
17,000 |
| The Mint |
10 |
| National Debt Office |
500 |
| National Savings Committee |
460,000 |
| Overlapping Income Tax Payments |
600,000 |
| Public Record Office |
18,500 |
| Public Works Loan Commission, |
10 |
| Repayments to the Local Loans Fund |
62,000 |
| Royal Commissions, etc. |
57,000 |
| Secret Service |
1,000,000 |
| Tithe Redemption Commission |
10 |
| Miscellaneous Expenses |
45,000 |
| Scotland: Scottish Home Department |
90,000 |
| Class II |
| Foreign Office |
1,000,000 |
| Diplomatic and Consular Establishments, etc. |
3,500,000 |
| British Council |
800,000 |
| League of Nations |
120,000 |
| United Nations |
600,000 |
| Dominions Office |
42,000 |
| Dominion Services |
220,000 |
| Oversea Settlement |
2,500 |
| Colonial Office |
250,000 |
| Colonial and Middle Eastern Services |
3,500,000 |
| West African Produce Control Board |
500,000 |
| Development and Welfare(Colonies, etc.) |
2,500,000 |
| Development and Welfare |
|
| (South African High Commission Territories) |
90,000 |
| India and Burma Services |
10,337,000 |
| Imperial War Graves Commission |
100,000 |
| Class III |
| Home Office |
420,000 |
| Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum |
51,000 |
| Police, England and Wales |
8,860,000 |
| Prisons, England and Wales |
1,050,000 |
| Approved Schools, etc., England and Wales |
250,000 |
| Supreme Court of Judicature, etc. |
10 |
| County Courts, etc. |
150,000 |
| Land Registry |
10 |
| Public Trustee |
38,000 |
| Law Charges |
150,000 |
| Miscellaneous Legal Expenses |
36,000 |
| Scotland: |
|
| Police |
50,000 |
| Prisons |
119,000 |
| Approved Schools, etc. |
60,000 |
| Scottish Land Court |
3,800 |
| Law Charges and Courts of Law |
31,450 |
| Register House, Edinburgh |
2,500 |
1936
|
£ |
| Ireland: |
| Northern Ireland Services |
4,000 |
| Supreme Court of Judicature, etc.. Northern Ireland |
21,350 |
| Irish Land Purchase Services |
616,000 |
| Class IV |
| Ministry of Education |
35,000,000 |
| British Museum |
70,000 |
| British Museum (Natural History) |
50,000 |
| Imperial Wax Museum |
6,500 |
| London Museum |
4,000 |
| National Gallery |
21,500 |
| National Maritime Museum |
4,000 |
| National Portrait Gallery |
4,500 |
| Wallace Collection |
6,000 |
| Scientific Investigation, etc. |
750,000 |
| Universities and Colleges, etc., Great Britain |
3,000,000 |
| Broadcasting |
3,750,000 |
| Scotland: |
|
| Public Education |
6,100,000 |
| National Galleries |
7,000 |
| National Library |
2,000 |
| Class V |
| Ministry of Health |
18,500,000 |
| Board of Control |
105,000 |
| Registrar-General's Office |
130,000 |
| Ministry of Labour and National Service |
9,750,000 |
| Grants in respect of Employment Schemes |
440,000 |
| Ministry of National Insurance |
17,000,000 |
| Assistance Board |
2,800,000 |
| National Insurance Audit Department |
52,000 |
| Friendly Societies Registry |
16,000 |
| Old Age Pensions |
22,000,000 |
| Widows', Orphans', and Old Age Contributory Pensions |
6,000,000 |
| Supplementary Pensions |
21,500,000 |
| Ministry of Town and Country Planning |
230,000 |
| Scotland: |
|
| Department of Health |
3,700,000 |
| Board of Control |
9,500 |
| Registrar-General's Office |
21,000 |
| Class VI. |
| Board of Trade |
7,500,000 |
| Services in Development. Areas |
3,830,000 |
| Financial Assistance in Development Areas |
44,000 |
| Export Credits |
10 |
| Export Credits (Special Guarantees) |
95,000 |
| Ministry of Fuel and Power |
1,000,000 |
| Office of Commissioners of Crown Lands |
14,000 |
| Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries |
2,500,000 |
| Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Food Production Services) |
6,000,000 |
| Surveys of Great Britain, etc |
400,000 |
| Forestry Commission |
750,000 |
| Development Fund |
330,000 |
| Ministry of Transport |
1,600,000 |
1937
|
£ |
| Roads, etc. |
6,600,000 |
| Mercantile Marine Services |
1,250,000 |
| Ministry of Civil Aviation |
9,000,000 |
| Development Grants |
140,820 |
| Department of Scientific and |
|
| Industrial Research |
650,000 |
| State Management Districts |
10 |
| Clearing Offices |
10 |
| Scotland: |
|
| Department of Agriculture |
550,000 |
| Department of Agriculture (Food Production Services) |
I,250,000 |
| Fisheries |
114,000 |
| Herring Industry |
2I5,000 |
| Class VII. |
| Ministry of Works |
2,393,000 |
| Art and Science Buildings, Great Britain |
230,000 |
| Houses of Parliament Buildings |
167,000 |
| Miscellaneous Legal Buildings, Great Britain |
50,000 |
| Osborne |
11,000 |
| Public Buildings, Great Britain |
14,241,000 |
| Public Buildings, Overseas |
204,000 |
| Royal Palaces |
84,000 |
| Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens |
139,000 |
| Miscellaneous Works Services |
1,410,000 |
| Rates on Government Property |
3,339,000 |
| Stationery and Printing |
4,000,000 |
| Central Office of Information |
880,000 |
| Peterhead Harbour |
5,000 |
| Works and Buildings in Ireland |
35,000 |
| Class VIII. |
| Merchant Seamen's War Pensions |
85,000 |
| Ministry of Pensions |
38,000,000 |
| Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions, etc. |
435,000 |
| Superannuation and Retired Allowances |
1,500,000 |
| Class IX |
| Exchequer Contributions to |
|
| Local Revenues, England and Wales |
21,500,000 |
| Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues, Scotland |
1,356,000 |
| Class X |
| Ministry of Supply |
250,000,000 |
| Ministry of Food |
103,500,000 |
| Ministry of Transport (War Services) |
39,000,000 |
| Ministry of Fuel and Power (War Services) |
5,000,000 |
| Home Office (War Services) |
11,650,000 |
| Control Office for Germany and Austria |
28,000,000 |
| United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration |
33,000,000 |
| Advances to Allies, etc. |
15,000,000 |
| War Damage Commission |
400,000 |
| War Service Grants |
2,600,000 |
1938
|
£ |
| Scotland: |
| Scottish Home department (War Services) |
540,000 |
| Total for Civil Estimates |
£812,885,000 |
| REVENUE DEPARTMENTS |
| Customs and Excise 3,600,000. |
3,600,000 |
| Inland Revenue |
5,400,000 |
| Post Office |
44,000,000 |
| Total for Revenue Departments |
£53,000,000 |
| Total for Civil Estimates and Estimates for Revenue Departments |
£865,885,000 |