§ Mr. George Cunninghamasked the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs if he will explain how the figure allocated to overseas aid in the public expenditure programme analysis on page 127 of the supplementary civil estimates (H. of C. 40) is derived from the figures in the table of which it forms part.
§ Mr. KershawThe additional £3,494,870 estimated requirement for overseas aid expenditure was, as stated in the Economic Classification, partly offset by savings on certain other pensions, etc.,—of members of the former Indian and Burma Services and their dependants—which are not classified as overseas aid or as items constituting direct public expenditure (£1,104,870). Additional receipts, estimated at £100,000 are credited to another public expenditure programme. The Supplementary Estimate, of course, sought provision only for the net estimated additional requirement. It is, however, correct that the additional charge to the aid programme arising from this Supplementary Estimate would be £3,494,870.