HC Deb 04 March 1925 vol 181 c476W
Mr. H. WILLIAMS

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total war aftermath expenditure included in the Estimates for 1925–26 for Civil Service and Revenue Departments, and also the amount of other temporary expenditure due to unemployment, the establishment of Irish self-government, and other transient causes '?

Mr. GUINNESS

Expenditure on transient. war services has now been reduced to such small dimensions that it is not proposed to show it separately in future. I should estimate the amount in 1925–26 at roughly £2,250,000. This figure does not, of course, cover the cost of continuing war services, borne on the Civil Service and Revenue Department Estimates, such as the cost of War Pensions or the expenditure of the War Graves Commission. With regard to the latter part of the question, I must ask the hon. Member to await the publication of the Estimates.