§ Colonel DAYasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the total cost of the upkeep for the 12 months ended to the last convenient date of the Imperial War Museum; and what portion of this cost is directly contributed by the State?
Mr. SAMUELThe figures for the audited expenditure on the Vote for the Imperial War Museum (Class IV, 3, Civil Service Estimates) for the 12 months ending 31st March, 1927, were:
In addition to this expenditure on the Museum Vote, expenditure amounting approximately to £11,600 was incurred in the same year on, behalf of the Museum on the Votes of other Departments, for building, furniture, lighting, heating, rates, stationery and printing, postal and revenue services, making a total expenditure of approximately £24,218 in all. The whole of the net cost was directly contributed by the State.
£ Gross total expenditure on the Museum Vote 13,374 Appropriations-in-Aid of the Vote (sales of publications, reproduction fees, receipts from Mutoscope machines, etc.) 756 Net total expenditure on the Museum Vote £ 12,618