Subsidies

HC Deb 07 November 1944 vol 404 c1289W

Mr. Barnes

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how much has been spent on food and other subsidies during each financial year since the outbreak of war.

Mr. Peake

The amounts of the food and other subsidies are shown (for the calendar, not the financial, years) in the Budget White Paper (Cmd. 6520) as follows:

				£ millions
1939	…	…	…	20
1940	…	…	…	70
1941	…	…	…	140
1942	…	…	…	175
1943	…	…	…	190

For the current year the present estimate is £225,000,000. The subsidies covered by these figures are set out in Note 14 at the end of the White Paper.