§ Mr. Pearsonasked the Home Secretary the amount in each case needed to cover the existing air-raid precautions services in the administrative counties and large boroughs in Wales, including Monmouth shire?
§ Sir J. AndersonOn the basis of expenditure in December, 1939, the estimated expenditure for a full year on the pay of whole-time volunteers for the Air-Raid Precautions Services, including the Auxiliary Fire Service, in the administrative counties and county boroughs in Wales and Monmouth shire is as shown in column 2 of the following table. This expenditure is reimbursed by the Exchequer. As regards expenditure on Air-Raid Precautions Services, including the Auxiliary Fire Service, which is met partly by the Exchequer and partly by the local authorities, particulars are not yet available of the estimated expenditure of all the local authorities concerned for the full financial year 1939–40, but column 3 of the table shows, on the basis of the returns received from those authorities, the expenditure, actual or estimated, in the first half of the year.
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Wales, including Monmouth shire. Name of County or County Borongh. Estimated Expenditure on pay of whole-time volunteers for a full year (see Note (a) below). Expenditure on other A.R.P. services in the first half of the financial year 1939–40 (see Note (b) below). (1) (2) (3) Counties: £ £ Anglesey 1,350 (e) 60 Brecknock (d) 180 Caernarvon (d) 4,140 Cardigan (d) 10 Carmarthen 3,250 9,420 Denbigh (d) 940 Flint 1,450 (e) 8,660 Glamorgan 105,800 28,680 Merioneth (d) 880 Monmouth 12,700 20,910 Montgomery (d) 10 Pembroke 1,600 6,210 Radnor (d) 1,220 County Boroughs: Cardiff 131,100 34,710 Merthyr Tydfil 18,700 (c) Newport 21,300 52,060 Swansea 95,060 10,010 Totals 392,310 178,100 (c) (a) In the year 1939–40, the expenditure on whole-time volunteers will cover only the period from 1st September, 1939, to the end of the financial year; and, as has been stated in reply to previous Questions, the establishments of whole-time personnel are now under review. (b) These figures do not include expenditure on material and equipment supplied free of charge by the Exchequer to local authorities. (c) No returns have so far been received from Merthyr Tydfil C.B. (d) In these counties the authorities have not been authorised to employ whole-time volunteers. (e) In these counties the estimated expenditure is in respect of whole-time volunteers in connection with the Auxiliary Fire Service only, the authorities not having been authorised to employ whole-time volunteers on air-raid general precautions services. In the remaining counties and in the County Boroughs the figure shown covers the pay of whole-time volunteers in the air-raid general precautions and auxiliary fire service.