HC Deb 20 January 1942 vol 377 cc243-4W
Colonel Burton

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, for each year, from 1924 to 1941, the amount spent on the base at Singapore; and what is the total expenditure upon that base?

Captain Crookshank

Details of expenditure on such schemes by the Service Departments have in the public interest not been given since the publication of the accounts for the financial year 1937. This consideration precludes the giving of information as to the expenditure on the base at Singapore after this date, but expenditure by the three Service Departments in the preceding financial years was as follows:

Financial Year. Expenditure.
£
1924 12,000
1925 118,000
1926 163,000
1927 340,000
1928 421,000
1929 863,000
1930 666,000
1931 873,000
1932 964,000
1933 917,000
1934 1,457,000
1935 1,804,000
1936 1,830,000
1937 2,189,000
Total £12,617,000

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