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Civil Services And Revenue Departments, 1915–16—Vote On Account

Volume 70: debated on Monday 22 February 1915

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Motion made, and Question proposed, "That a sum, not exceeding £36,853,000, be granted to His Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the Charges for the following Civil Services and Revenue Departments for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1916, namely:—

£
Class II.
Board of Trade200,000
Class I.
Royal Palaces27,000
Osborne7,000
Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens52,000
Houses of Parliament Buildings34,000
Miscellaneous Legal Buildings, Great Britain30,000
Art and Science Buildings, Great Britain36,000
Diplomatic and Consular Buildings25,000
Revenue Buildings250,000
Insurance and Labour Exchange Buildings, Great Britain85,000
Public Buildings, Great Britain387,000
Surveys of the United Kingdom125,000
Harbours under the Board of Trade11,000
Peterhead Harbour10,000
Rates on Government Property425,000
Public Works and Buildings, Ireland120,000
Railways, Ireland10,000
Works for Relief of Unemployment
Mall Approach Improvement
Class II.
United Kingdom and England:
House of Lords Offices20,000
House of Commons90,000
Treasury and Subordinate Departments45,000
Home Office100,000

£
Foreign Office32,000
Colonial Office24,000
Privy Council Office5,000
Mercantile Marine Services70,000
Bankruptcy Department of the Board of Trade5
Board of Agriculture and Fisheries200,000
Charity Commission14,000
Government Chemist11,000
Civil Service Commission25,000
Exchequer and Audit Department26,000
Friendly Societies Registry12,000
Local Government Board127,000
Board of Control68,000
Mint, including Coinage15
National Debt Office5,500
Public Record Office11,000
Public Works Loan Commission5
Registrar-General's Office21,000
Stationery and Printing500,000
Woods, Forests, etc., Office of10,000
Works and Public Buildings, Office of67,000
Secret Service80,000
Scotland:
Secretary for Scotland, Office of7,000
Board of Agriculture25,000
Fishery Board8,000
General Board of Control12,000
Registrar-General's Office3,500
Local Government Board10,000
Ireland:
Lord Lieutenant's Household2,500
Chief Secretary's Offices and Subordinate Departments11,000
Department of Agriculture and Technical Instruction85,000
Charitable Donations and Bequests Office900
Congested Districts Board64,000
Local Government Board48,000
Public Record Office2,500
Public Works Office20,000
Registrar-General's Office5,500
Valuation and Boundary Survey15,000
Class III.
United Kingdom and England:
Law Charges45,000
Miscellaneous Legal Expenses26,000
Supreme Court of Judicature, etc150,000

£
Land Registry15,000
Public Trustee5
County Courts50,000
Police, England and Wales50,000
Prisons, England and the Colonies420,000
Reformatory and Industrial Schools, Great Britain170,000
Criminal Lunatic Asylums, England27,000
Scotland:
Law Charges and Courts of Law35,000
Scottish Land Court4,000
Register House, Edinburgh18,000
Prisons54,000
Ireland.
Law Charges and Criminal Prosecutions30,000
Supreme Court of Judicature, and other Legal Departments47,000
Land Commission315,000
County Court Officers, etc.40,000
Dublin Metropolitan Police65,000
Royal Irish Constabulary680,000
Prisons45,000
Reformatory and Industrial Schools60,000
Dundrum Criminal Lunatic Asylum4,000
Class IV.
United Kingdom and England.
Board of Education5,575,000
British Museum70,000
National Gallery7,000
National Portrait Gallery2,500
Wallace Collection3,500
London Museum2,500
Scientific Investigation, etc.42,000
Universities and Colleges, Great Britain, and Intermediate Education, Wales105,000
Universities, etc., Special Grants
Scotland.
Public Education1,000,000
National Galleries2,600
Ireland.
Public Education980,000
Intermediate Education, Ireland
Endowed Schools Commissioners400
National Gallery1,500
Science and Art25,000
Universities and Colleges, Ireland60,000

Class V.
£
Diplomatic and Consular Services465,000
Colonial Services125,000
Telegraph Subsidies and Pacific Cables17,000
Cyprus (Grant in Aid)49,000
Persian Loan
Albanian Loan
Class VI.
Superannuation and Retired Allowances380,000
Miscellaneous Expenses8,570
Hospitals and Charities, Ireland16,000
Temporary Commissions20,000
Repayments to the Local Loans Fund
Ireland Development Grant180,000
International Exhibitions2,000
Repayments to the Civil Contingencies Fund
Class VII.
Old Age Pensions5,200,000
National Health Insurance Joint Committee50,000
National Health Insurance Commission (England)1,600,000
National Health Insurance Commission (Wales)180,000
National Health Insurance Commission (Scotland)300,000
National Health Insurance Commission (Ireland)264,000
Labour Exchanges and Unemployment Insurance300,000
National Insurance Audit Department50,000
Treatment of Tuberculosis (Special Grants)150,000
Pathological Laboratories
Highlands and Islands (Medical Service) Board2,000
Friendly Societies' Deficiency
Expenses under the Unemployed Workmen Act, 1905
REVENUE DEPARTMENTS.
Customs and Excise1,100,000
Inland Revenue950,000
Post Office11,500,000
Total for Civil Services and Revenue Departments£36,853,000

[NOTE.—The sum taken represents a provision for between four and five months' expenditure.]