CIVIL ESTIMATES (Hansard, 21 February 1956)

CLASS I
		£
1.	House of Lords	48,000
2.	House of Commons	370,000
3.	Registration of Electors	300,000
4.	Treasury and Subordinate Departments	1,350,000
5.	Privy Council Office	11,000
6.	Privy Seal Office	5,380
7.	Charity Commission	34,000
8.	Civil Service Commission	147,000
9.	Exchequer and Audit Department	183,000
10.	Friendly Societies Registry	27,000
11.	Government Actuary	16,000
12.	Government Chemist	106,000
13.	Government Hospitality	20,000
14.	The Royal Mint	10
15.	National Debt Office	10
16.	National Savings Committee	260,000
17.	Public Record Office	38,000
18.	Public Works Loan Commission	10
19.	Royal Commissions, etc.	70,000
20.	Secret Service	1,700,000
21.	Silver	1,800,000
22.	Tithe Redemption Commission	10
23.	Miscellaneous Expenses Scotland:	68,000
24.	Scottish Home Department	530,000
25.	Scottish Record Office	13,000

CLASS II
1.	Foreign Service	5,500,000
2.	Foreign Office Grants and Services	10,000,000
3.	British Council	800,000
4.	United Nations	1,450,000
5.	Commonwealth Relations Office	780,000
6.	Commonwealth Services	680,000
7.	Oversea Settlement	66,000
8.	Colonial Office	450,000

		£
9.	Colonial Services	7,500,000
10.	Development and Welfare (Colonies, etc.)	5,000,000
11.	Development and Welfare (Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, and South African High Commission Territories)	460,000
12.	Imperial War Graves Commission	440,000

CLASS III
1.	Home Office	1,180,000
2.	Home Office (Civil Defence Services)	3,800,000
3.	Police, England and Wales	12,860,000
4.	Prisons, England and Wales	2,850,000
5.	Child Care, England and Wales	2,260,000
6.	Fire Services, England and Wales	1,338,000
7.	Carlisle State Management District	10
8.	Supreme Court of Judicature, etc	50,000
9.	County Courts	220,000
10.	Legal Aid Fund	600,000
11.	Land Registry	10
12.	Public Trustee	10
13.	Law Charges	185,000
14.	Miscellaneous Legal Expenses	42,000
	Scotland:
15.	Scottish Home Department (Civil Defence Services)	238,000
16.	Police	42,000
17.	Prisons	265,000
18.	Approved Schools	84,000
19.	Fire Services	15,000
20.	State Management Districts	10
21.	Law Charges and Courts of Law	92,000
22.	Department of the Registers of Scotland	10
	Ireland:
23.	Supreme Court of Judicature, etc., Northern Ireland	20
24.	Irish Land Purchase Services	600,000

CLASS IV
1.	Ministry of Education	93,000,000
2.	British Museum	222,000
3.	British Museum (Natural History)	100,000
4.	Imperial War Museum	18,500
5.	London Museum	9,500
6.	National Gallery	33,000
7.	Tate Gallery	26,000
8.	National Maritime Museum	17,000
9.	National Portrait Gallery	9,000
10.	Wallace Collection	11,500
11.	Grants for Science and the Arts	660,000
12.	Universities and Colleges, etc., Great Britain	17,000,000
13.	Broadcasting	7,200,000
	Scotland:—
14.	Public Education	17,150,000
15.	National Galleries	14,000
16.	National Museum of Antiquities	7,500
17.	National Library	35,500

CLASS V
		£
1.	Ministry of Housing and Local Government	6,300,000
2.	Housing, England and Wales	13,000,000
3.	Exchequer Grants to Local Revenues, England and Wales	24,600,000
4.	Ministry of Health	12,000,000
5.	National Health Service, England and Wales	154,700,000
6.	Medical Research Council	900,000
7.	Registrar General's Office	136,000
8.	Central Land Board	130,000
9.	War Damage Commissions	220,000
	Scotland:—
10.	Department of Health	2,075,000
11.	National Health Service	17,162,000
12.	Housing	6,234,000
13.	Exchequer Grants to Local Revenues	3,290,000
14.	Registrar General's Office	19,000

	CLASS VI
1.	Board of Trade	1,522,000
2.	Board of Trade (Assistance to Industry and Trading Services)	916,000
3.	Board of Trade (Strategic Reserves)	2,170,000
4.	Services in Development Areas	2,000,000
5.	Financial Assistance in Development Areas	150,000
6.	Export Credits	10
7.	Export Credits (Special Guarantees)	10
8.	Ministry of Labour and National Service	7,069,000
9.	Ministry of Supply	70,000,000
10.	Ministry of Supply (Purchasing (Repayment) Services)	10
11.	Royal Ordnance Factories	2,000,000

CLASS VII
1.	Ministry of Works	2,810,000
2.	Houses of Parliament Buildings	120,000
3.	Public Buildings, etc., United Kingdom	9,436,000
4.	Public Buildings Overseas	588,000
5.	Royal Palaces	170,000
6.	Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens	261,000
7.	Historic Buildings and Ancient Monuments	295,000
8.	Rates on Government Property	7,800,000
9.	Stationery and Printing	5,250,000
10.	Central Office of Information	600,000
11.	Peterhead Harbour	13,000

CLASS VIII
1.	Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food	5,500,000
2.	Agricultural and Food Grants and Subsidies	90,000,000

		£
3.	Agricultural and Food Services	4,000,000
4.	Food (Strategic Reserves)	2,800,000
5.	Fishery Grants and Services	1,600,000
6.	Surveys of Great Britain, etc.	990,000
7.	Office of Commissioners of Crown Lands	33,000
8.	Agricultural Research Council	1,500,000
9.	Nature Conservancy	120,000
10.	Development Fund	400,000
11.	Forestry Commission	3,200,000
	Scotland:—
12.	Department of Agriculture	7,750,000
13.	Fisheries (Scotland) and Herring Industry	860,000

CLASS IX
1.	Ministry of Transport and Civil Aviation	2,981,000
2.	Roads, etc., England and Wales	15,700,000
3.	Transport (Shipping and Special Services)	243,000
4.	Civil Aviation	2,300,000
5.	Ministry of Fuel and Power	1,350,000
6.	Ministry of Fuel and Power (Special Services)	2,700,000
7.	Atomic Energy	30,000,000
8.	Department of Scientific and Industrial Research	2,517,000
9.	Roads, etc., Scotland	2,420,000

CLASS X
1.	Superannuation and Retired Allowances	5,050,000
2.	Ministry of Pensions and National Insurance	1,500,000
3.	War Pensions, etc.,	32,250,000
4.	National Insurance and Family Allowances	73,500,000
5.	National Assistance Board	43,500,000
6.	Pensions (India, Pakistan and Burma)	2,850,000
7.	Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions, etc.	380,000
	Total for Civil Estimates	894,407,000

REVENUE DEPARTMENTS
1.	Customs and Excise	4,930,000
2.	Inland Revenue	12,600,000
3.	Post Office	98,300,000
	Total for Revenue Departments	115,830,000
	Ministry of Defence	5,400,000
	Total for Civil Estimates and Estimates for Revenue Departments together with Estimate for the Ministry of Defence	1,015,637,000