§ Sir G. COLLINSasked the President of the Board of Trade whether the Government of Northern Ireland grant any subsidy or payments, direct or indirect, to shipbuilding firms resident in Northern Ireland?
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Miscellaneous Revenue. — Actual Receipts, 1928–8. Estimated Receipts, 1928–9. Ordinary Receipts: Fee and Patent stamps 1,678,000 50,000* Post Office and Trustee Savings Banks—Share of Surplus Interest. 3,367,000 3,408,000 Currency Note Account—Surplus Income 6,560,000 5,250,000 Bank of England—Profits of Issue 206,000 206,000 Teachers' Superannuation Contributions 2,896,000 —* Repayment of loans for relief of unemployment 1,130,000 997,000 Savings on votes surrendered in cash and surplus departmental receipts. 886,000 1,500,000 Road Fund 12,000,000 — Unclaimed Dividend Account — 1,000,000 Mines Department Sale of coal 331,000 — Miscellaneous 1,838,000 1,139,000 30,892,000 13,550,000 Special Receipts: Surplus Stores and Shipping Receipts 3,668,000 1,500,000 Reparations 14,500,000 19,000,000 Enemy Debt Receipts 3,750,000 3,500,000 Receipts in connection with closing of Allied Suspense Accounts. 3,373,000 — Kenya Loan Repayment 3,280,000 — Repayments by Palestine, etc. — 662,000 Vote of Credit Trading Account Receipts — 710,000 Miscellaneous 1,917,000 1,790,000 Currency Note Surplus Assets — 13,200,000 30,488,000 40,362,000 *Receipts now appropriated, when possible, in aid of Votes.
§ Sir W. JOYNSON-HICKSThe matter is one which falls entirely within the powers of the Government and Parliament of Northern Ireland, and I regret that I am unable to supply any information on the subject.