§ Mr. BELLAIRSasked the Secretary to the Treasury what has been the increase in the gross Civil Service expenditure since 1904–5 as compared with the Estimates for 1909–10, and what has been the corresponding increase or decrease of gross naval expenditure?
§ Mr. HOBHOUSEThe gross total of the original Estimates for Civil Services, 1909–10, shows an increase as compared with that for 1904–5 of £12,202,362. The corresponding figures for the Navy Estimates show a decrease of £1,544,848. These figures, of course, take no account of Supplementary Estimates, savings in expenditure as compared with Estimate, or expenditure chargeable otherwise than to Votes.