HC Deb 27 February 1951 vol 484 cc1932-5

Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £929,264,000, be granted to His Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the charges for the following Civil and Revenue Departments and for the Ministry of Defence for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1952, namely:

CIVIL ESTIMATES
CLASS I
£
1. House of Lords 33,000
2. House of Commons 275,000
3. Registration of Electors 300,000
4. Treasury and Subordinate Departments 1,200,000
5. Privy Council Office 10,500
6. Privy Seal Office 3,500
7. Charity Commission 25,000
8. Civil Service Commission 162,000
9. Exchequer and Audit Department 131,000
10. Government Actuary 16,000
11. Government Chemist 71,000
12. Government Hospitality 35,000
13. The Mint 10
14. National Debt Office 10
15. National Savings Committee 300,000
16. Overlapping Income Tax Payments 7,000
17. Public Record Office 27,500
18. Public Works Loan Commission 10
19. Repayments to the Local Loans Fund 6,000
20. Royal Commissions, &c. 44,910
21. Secret Service 1,400,000
22. Tithe Redemption Commission 10
23. Silver 1,600,000
24. American Aid Counterpart Funds 300,000
26. Miscellaneous Expenses 50,000
Scotland:
27. Scottish Home Department 310,000
28. Scottish Record Office 9,000
CLASS II
1. Foreign Service 4,400,000
2. Foreign Office Grants and Services 10,000,000
3. British Council 620,000
4. United Nations 1,400,000
5. International Refugee Organisation 866,000
6. Commonwealth Relations Office 590,000
£
7. Commonwealth Services 482,000
8. Oversea Settlement 140,000
9. Colonial Office 300,000
10. Colonial and Middle Eastern Services 8,000,000
11. Development and Welfare (Colonies, &c.) 6,500,000
12. Development and Welfare (South African High Commission Territories) 150,000
13. Imperial War Graves Commission 500,000
CLASS III
1. Home Office 920,000
2. Home Office (Civil Defence Services) 2,500,000
3. Police, England and Wales 8,890,000
4. Prisons, England and Wales 2,100,000
5. Child Care, England and Wales 1,975,000
6. Fire Services, England and Wales 932,000
7. Supreme Court of Judicature, &c. 400,000
8. County Courts 100,000
9. Land Registry 10
10. Public Trustee 10
11. Law Charges 160,000
12. Miscellaneous Legal Expenses 30,000
Scotland:
13. Scottish Home Department (Civil Defence Services) 191,500
14. Police 31,000
15. Prisons 208,000
16. Approved Schools 55,000
17. Fire Services 14,500
18. Scottish Land Court 5,000
19. Law Charges and Courts of Law 50,000
20. Department of the Registers of Scotland 10
Ireland:
21. Supreme Court of Judicature, &c, Northern Ireland 21,500
22. Irish Land Purchase Services 610,000
CLASS IV
1. Ministry of Education 66,000,000
2. British Museum 137,000
3. British Museum (Natural History) 73,000
4. Imperial War Museum 10,000
5. London Museum 6,000
6. National Gallery 33,000
7. National Maritime Museum 8,500
8. National Portrait Gallery 6,500
9. Wallace Collection 8,000
10. Grants for Science and the Arts 1,700,000
11. Universities and Colleges, &c, Great Britain 11,000,000
12. Broadcasting 5,300,000
13. Festival of Britain, 1951 3.000,000
Scotland:
14. Public Education 9,250,000
15. National Galleries 10,000
16. National Library 6,000
CLASS V
£
1. Ministry of Local Government and Planning 2,395,000
2. Housing, England and Wales 9,000,000
3. Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues, England and Wales 16,850,000
4. Ministry of Health 1,230,000
5. National Health Service, England and Wales 120,000,000
6. Registrar-General's Office 1,120,000
7. Ministry of Labour and National Service 7,200,000
8. Grants in respect of Employment Schemes 225,000
9. Ministry of National Insurance 74,000,000
10. National Assistance Board 32,350,000
11. Friendly Societies Registry 21,000
12. Central Land Board 1,200,000
Scotland:
13. Department of Health 620,000
14. National Health Service 14,350,000
15. Housing 3,500,000
16. Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues 1,900,000
17. Registrar General's Office 172,500
CLASS VI
1. Board of Trade 2,600,000
2. Services in Development Areas 2,400,000
3. Financial Assistance in Development Areas 350,000
4. Export Credits 10
5. Export Credits (Special Guarantees) 225,000
6. Ministry of Fuel and Power 2,000,000
7. Office of Commissioners of Crown Lands 24,000
8. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries 6,450,000
9. Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Food Production Services) 8,550,000
11. Surveys of Great Britain &c. 830,000
12. Forestry Commission 2,250,000
13. Development Fund 480,000
14. Ministry of Transport 830.000
15. Roads, &c. 10,300,000
16. Mercantile Marine Services 160,000
17. Ministry of Civil Aviation 6,100,000
18. Department of Scientific and Industrial Research 1,780,000
19. State Management Districts 50,000
Scotland:
20. Department of Agriculture 1,260,000
21. Department of Agriculture (Food Production Services) 2,000,000
22. Fisheries 465,000
23. Herring Industry 235,000
24. State Management Districts 10
CLASS VII
1. Ministry of Works 2,352,500
2. Houses of Parliament Buildings 250,000
3. Public Buildings, Great Britain 10,300,000
£
4. Public Buildings Overseas 645,000
5. Royal Palaces 130,000
6. Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens 200,000
7. Miscellaneous Works Services 400,000
8. Rates on Government Property 3,500,000
9. Stationery and Printing 4,650,000
10. Central Office of Information 775,000
11. Peterhead Harbour 18,000
Ireland:
12. Works and Buildings in Ireland 70,000
CLASS VIII
1. Merchant Seamen's War Pensions 75,000
2. Ministry of Pensions 33,000,000
3. Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions, &c. 410,000
4. Superannuation and Retired Allowances 2,950,000
CLASS IX
1. Ministry of Supply 80,000,000
2. Ministry of Supply (Trading Services and Assistance to Industry) 12,500,000
3. Ministry of Food 150,000,000
4. Ministry of Transport (Shipping and War Terminal Services) 3,200,000
5. Ministry of Fuel and Power (War Services) 30,000
6. Foreign Office (German Section) 1,450,000
7. Administration of certain African Territories 865,000
8. Advances to Allies, &c. 2,000,000
9. War Damage Commission 500,000
10. Burma War Damage Payments 43,000
11. Board of Trade (Strategic Reserves) 16,000,000
12. Ministry of Supply (Strategic Reserves) 7,500,000
13. Ministry of Food (Strategic Reserves) 30,000,000
Total for Civil Estimates 855,292,000
REVENUE DEPARTMENTS
1. Customs and Excise 3,300,000
2. Inland Revenue 10,000,000
3. Post Office 58,000,000
Total for Revenue Departments 71,300,000
Ministry of Defence 2,672,000
Total for Civil Estimates and Estimates for Revenue Departments together with Estimate for the Ministry of Defence 929,264,000."
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