§ Mr. Mulveyasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will give the total net
Year. Northern Ireland Imperial Contribution. Payments to Northern Ireland.(2) Unemployment Reinsurance. Excess War Expenditure. (3) Subsidies to Producers. (4) £ £ £ £ 1936–37 900,000 935,800 — 371,500 1937–38 1,200,000 1,709,800 — 263,200 1938–39 1,300,000 1,767,600 — 335,200 1939–40 3,000,000 1,400,200 515,200 732,500 1940–41 8,500,000 1,418,700 1,648,900 83,700 1941–42 17,600,000 138,000 2,599,900 89,000 1942–43 29,750,000 — 4,319,900 183,700 1943–44 36,000,000 — 3,465,600 2,125,000 1944–45 36,300,000 — 2,612,200 2,270,000 1945–46 34,500,000(1) — 617,000 1,839,000 NOTES: (1) Provisional. (2) These figures exclude Land Purchase Annuities retained by Northern Ireland under Section 26 of the Government of Northern Ireland Act, 1920, amounting to approximately £656,000 per annum. (3) These payments, made during the war years, were intended to cover excess transferred expenditure arising mainly out of the delegation to the Northern Ireland Government of the administration of certain war services, such as Civil Defence, which in normal circumstances are outside its statutory powers. In addition to these amounts, advances amounting to £1,435,000 were made up to 31st March, 1946, in respect of emergency electricity undertakings, of which £447,277 has been repaid. (4) Payable in Northern Ireland in respect of milk, cattle, lime and basic slag, wheat, oats, barley, hill sheep, and (since 1943–44) crop acreage.