§ Mr. G. HALLasked the Minister of Labour the amount of state grants for public works for each respective year during which the Unemployment Grants Committee was in being?
Mr. STANLEYThe estimated cost of schemes approved for grant by the Unemployment Grants Committee during various periods from December,1920, to January,1932 (since which date no further grants were approved), is as follows:
Period. Total Estimated Cost. £ December, 1920–March, 1922 26,574,000 March, 1922–June, 1923 15,874,000 July, 1923–June, 1924 24,222,000 July, 1924–June, 1925 20,639,000 July, 1925–June, 1926 17,566,000 July, 1926–June, 1927 792,000 July, 1927–June, 1928 319,000 July, 1928–June, 1929 6,181,000 June, 1929–August, 1930 43,435,000 September, 1930–January, 1932 35,404,000 £191,006,000 The payments of Exchequer grant made to 31st March,1935, are as follow:
Financial Year ended 31st March. £ 1921 26,636 1922 1,696,310 1923 570,046 1924 1,034,336 1925 1,750,102 1926 2,134,636 1927 2,391,564 1928 2,692,101 1929 2,706,539 1930 2,747,397 1931 2,939,911 1932 3,657,863 1933 4,078,638 1934 4,420,046 1935 4,523,628 The estimated Exchequer liability during following years (up to 1964) is 1908W set out in Appendix III to the Final Report of the Unemployment Grants Committee (Cmd. 4354). It should be noted that the figures in the Appendix, also the above figures in respect of grants paid, include some provision for interest charges on loans raised for the purposes of the schemes.