HC Deb 26 January 1943 vol 386 cc382-6W

Total Expenditure under Certain Acts of Parliament.
Other than expenditure out of loans for capital purposes or out of capital receipts.
NOTE.—This Statement gives the expenditure on Public Social Services in 1940 and 1941, the latest years for which details are available, which would have been included in Part 1 of the return to be published in continuation of Command 5906 of November, 1938. Reference should be made to Command 5906 for comparable expenditure in earlier years and for information as to the basis on which the return is compiled, but it should be observed that the explanatory notes given in that return are not now accurate in all respects.

Service. England and Wales. Scotland. 1940 (or latest available year) Great Britain. Total number of persons directly benefiting from the expenditure included in Column 5.
Financial Year commencing 1st April. Financial Year Commencing 1st April.
1940 (or latest available year). 1941 (estimated). 1940 (or latest available year). 1941 (estimated).
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 England and Wales Scotland
(a) Unemployment Insurance and Unemployment Assistance Acts:
(i) Unemployment Benefit, etc., General Scheme 22,503 7,270 3,113 1,425 25,616 Not available Not available
(ii) Unemployment Benefit, etc., Agricultural Scheme 558 327 70 42 628 Not available Not available
(iii) Unemployment Allowances 10,927 3,207 2,398 904 13,325 Not available Not available
(iv) Prevention and Relief of Distress 1,940 1,453 124 93 2,064 Not available Not available
(b) National Health Insurance Acts 34,168† 40,750† 3,919† 4,765† 38,087 19,996,000* 2,286,000*
(c)Widows', Orphans' and Old Age Contributory Pensions Acts 50,128‡ 53,592‡ 5,876‡ 6,231‡ 56,004 2,347,000 285,399
(d) Old Age Pensions Acts 44,590 45,598 5,141 5,235 49,731 1,911,000 220,000
(e) Old Age and Widows' Pensions Act 1940 (Supplementary Pensions) 15,321 26,676 1,687 2,820 17,008§ Not available Not available
(f) War Pensions Acts and the Ministry of Pensions Act (i.e. War of 1914–18) 31,994 31,000 3,502 3,416 35,496 696,350 76,650
(g) Pensions (Navy, Army, Air Force and Mercantile Marine) Act, 1939; Personal Injuries (Emergency Provisions) Act, 1939; Military Training Act, 1939; Reserve and Auxiliary Forces Act, 1939 5,379 12,782 576 1,419 5,955 240,140 26,440
(h) Education Acts 107,450 112,686 15,376 16,370 122,826 Not available 896,335

Service. England and Wales. Scotland. 1940 (or latest available year) Great Britain. Total number of persons directly benefiting from the expenditure included in Column 5.
Financial Year commencing 1st April. Financial Year commencing 1st April.
1940 (or latest available year). 1941 (estimated). 1940 (or latest available year). 1941 (estimated).
(1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6)
£000 £000 £000 £000 £000 England and Wales Scotland
(i) Physical Training and Recreation Act 126 41 7 7 133 Not available Not available
(j) Acts relating to Approved Schools 1,068 1,173 177 201 1,245 8,853 2,436
(k) Public Health Acts so far as they relate to:
(i) Hospitals and Treatment of Disease 18,771 not available 1,933 not available 20,704 Not available Not available
(ii) Maternity and Child Welfare Work 4,328 660 6,649 Not available Not available
(l) Midwives Acts 1,661 Not available Not available
(m) Housing Acts 45,600 8,617 54,217 — —
(n) Acts relating to the Relief of the Poor 43,691 5,450 49,141 1,157,262 132,130
(o) Lunacy and Mental Treatment Acts 3,166 1,686 8,927 132,963 21,825
(p) Mental Deficiency Acts 4,075 Not available
Totals 447,444 60,312 507,756
NOTES.
* Numbers given are those of insured persons. See paragraph 6 on page 5 of Command 5906.
† The figures given in columns 1 and 3 and columns 2 and 4 relate to the calendar years 1941 and 1942 respectively.
‡ These figures refer to expenditure from the Pensions Account, the Special Pensions Account, the Pensions (Scotland) Account and the Special Pensions (Scotland) Account. Surpluses and deficits in these Accounts are dealt with by transfers to and from the Treasury Pensions Account and the Treasury Special Pensions Account which cover both England and Wales and Scotland, and into which annual contributions are to be paid by the Exchequer. For the financial year 1940 the amount of the Exchequer contribution was £20,525,000.
§ From August, 1940.