Rate-Borne Expenditure

HC Deb 29 October 1948 vol 457 cc4-5W

Sir E. Graham-Little

asked the Minister of Education what have been the annual additions to the rates in England and Wales in respect of costs of education for each year since the passage of the Education Act, 1944.

Mr. Tomlinson

Information about the estimated amount of net rate-borne expenditure on education services within the purview of my Department is given each year in the Memorandum on the Ministry of Education Estimates which is presented to Parliament. The figures for such expenditure shown in the Memoranda for the financial years since 1945-46 (inclusive) are as follows:—

			£
1945–46	…	…	62,313,000
1946–47	…	…	69,710,000
1947–48	…	…	74,774,000
1948–49	…	…	82,861,000