§ Mr. BENNETTasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the amount per head of the population expended in respect of each of the public services undertaken or contributed to by the State in 1925–26.
§ Mr. McNEILLThe amounts issued from the Exchequer to meet expenditure in 1925–26, divided in each case by the population taken as 44,000,000, work out as follow:
Exchequer Issues, 1925–26. Per head of Population. £ £ s. d. National Debt Services. 358,229,000 8 2 10 Other Consolidated Fund Charges. 39,921,000 18 2 Army, including Ordnance Factories. 44,250,000 1 0 1 Navy 59,657,000 1 7 1 Air Force 15,470,000 7 0 Civil Estimates 243,263,000 5 10 7 Customs and Excise and Inland Revenue. 11,360,000 5 2 Post Office Services 53,950,000 1 4 7 826,100,000 18 15 6 If my hon. Friend desires further information as to the expenditure on public social services I would refer him to the return No. 205 of 1925, pages 5 and 6.