§ Mr. HANCOCKasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he can state, for the years ending 31st March, 1917, 1918, and 1919, respectively, the total estimate for the year's expenditure 978W framed by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, the total amount of expenditure for the year, and the amount by which the expenditure exceeded the Estimate?
§ Mr. BALDWINThe Budget Estimates, which during the War were necessarily tentative and subject to the uncertainties of military events, wore exceeded, as will be seen from the subjoined figures, by £372,733,000 in 1916–17 and £405,840,000 in 1917–18. In 1918–19, owing to the Armistice, there was a saving of. £392,896,000.
Year. Budget Estimate. Expenditure. £ £ 1916–17 1,825,380,000 2,198,113,000 1917–18 2,290,381,000 2,096,221,000 1918–19 2,972,197,000 2,579,301,000