AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY (FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE) (Hansard, 14 November 1949)

Mr. H. D. Hughes

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will list the subsidies and other forms of financial assistance from the Exchequer paid to

ASSISTANCE FROM THE EXCHEQUER PAID TO AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY, 1935–36, 1936–37, 1937–38 AND 1938–39
—	1935–36	1936–37	1937–38	1938–39
Agriculture	5,836,000	5,124,000	5,477,000	6,913,000
Air Transport	323,980	310,892	613,532	1,043,354
Beet Sugar	2,286,000	2,981,000	1,218,000	1,753,000
Fishing (Herring Industry)	12,000	47,000	47,000	3,000
Shipping	2,020,049	2,022,015	31,000	31,916
NOTES:—
(1) The amounts given are those actually paid and not those voted.
(2) The table does not include losses on trading by Government Departments; provision by Service Departments to assist their contractors to increase capacity; expenditure provided under general policies such as housing, social services, cost-of-living, the training, resettlement and transference of labour, distribution of industry, improvement of design or research; loans which have since been repaid; or payments during the period in completion of purchases of shares before the period commenced.
(3) The figures given for Air Transport are the net charge on the Exchequer after deduction of contributions made by Dominion and Colonial Governments.

agriculture and industry in the financial year 1938-39 and the three preceding years, giving the amounts involved in each case.