§ Mr. G. LOCKER-LAMPSONasked the Minister of Health if, in connection with National Health Insurance, he will issue a Return, in the form of a revenue account, of the receipts and expenditure for the last recorded year, including in the receipts the Treasury payments under separate headings, and including in the expenditure the payments for each benefit (stated. separately); and, in the event of there, 715W being other payments for fees, salaries, hostages, printing, travelling, rent, rates and taxes, etc., whether he will add them in a footnote, so that the entire expenditure on National Health Insurance may be shown?
RETURN SHOWING ESTIMATES RECEIPTS and EXPENDITURE (in round figures) under the National Health Insurance Acts in the year 1918, for England and Wales. Receipts £ Cash at Bank of England, 1st January, 1918 … … … … 530,000 Cash in hand of approved societies and insurance committees 1st January, 1918 … … … … … … 890,000 Contributions of employers and employed persons … … … 16,250,000 Interest and sundry receipts … … … … … … 2,360,000 Exchequer— £ Medical and sanatorium benefit … … … … … 2,767,000 Sickness, disablement and maternity benefits … … … 1,556,000 Sickness benefit (Women's Equalisation Fund for 1917 and 1918) 445,000 Sickness benefit (recoupment, invalided soldiers) … … 322,000 Administration expenses of approved societies and insurance committees … … … … … … 687,000 Central administration expenses … … … … … 393,000 6,170,000 £26,200,000 Expenditure. £ Medical benefit … … … … … … 4,840,000 Sanatorium benefit … … … … … … 731,000 Sickness and disablement benefits … … … … … 5,600,000 Maternity benefit … … … … … … 886,000 Administration expenses— £ Approved Societies … … … … … … 1,944,000 Insurance committees … … … … … … 278,000 Central administration … … … … … … 412,000 2,634,000 Sums invested— £ By National Debt Commissioners … … … … 3,737,000 By approved societies … … … … … … 6,110,000 9,847,000 Cash at Bank of England, 31st December, 1918 … … … 802,000 Cash in hands of approved societies and insurance committees 31st December, 1918 … … … … … … 860,000 £26,200,000
EXPENDITURE in connection with National Health Insurance is also incurred by other Government Departments, the estimated amount of which in 1918 was as follows:— £ Office Accommodation (Buildings, Furniture, Fuel and Light, etc.) 30,400 Rates … … … … … … … 3,900 Stationery and Printing … … … … … … … 53,700 Audit … … … … … … … 73,900 Revenue Departments, Customs and Excise … … … … 2,400 Revenue Departments, Post Office … … … … … 100,700 £265,000