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Civil Estimates

Volume 472: debated on Wednesday 15 March 1950

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CLASS I
£
1.House of Lords30,000
2.House of Commons275,000
3.Registration of Electors300,000
4.Treasury and Subordinate Departments1,100,000
5.Privy Council Office10,500
6.Privy Seal Office3,000
7.Charity Commission23,500
8.Civil Service Commission168,000
9.Exchequer and Audit Department116,000
10.Government Actuary12,000
11.Government Chemist64,500
12.Government Hospitality35,000
13.The Mint10
14.National Debt Office10
15.National Savings Committee290,000
16.Overlapping Income Tax Payments17,000
17.Public Record Office26,500
18.Public Works Loan Commission10
19.Repayments to the Local Loans Fund12,000
20.Royal Commissions, & c.39,800
21.Secret Service1,000,000
22.Tithe Redemption Commission10
23.Silver1,000,000
24.American Aid Counterpart Funds2,000,000
25.Miscellaneous Expenses60,000
Scotland:—
26.Scottish Home Department340,000
27.Scottish Record Office7,5000
CLASS II
1.Foreign Service4,200,000
2.Foreign Office Grants and Services5,500,000
3.British Council850,000
4.United Nations1,700,000
5.International Refugee Organisation2,500,000
6.Commonwealth Relations Office550,000

£
7.Commonwealth Services425,000
8.Oversea Settlement390,000
9.Colonial Office300,000
10.Colonial and Middle Eastern Services5,750,000
11.West African Produce Control Board999,000
12.Development and Welfare (Colonies, & c.)6,500,000
13.Development and Welfare (South African High Commission Territories)120,000
14.Imperial War Graves Commission500,000
CLASS III
1.Home Office880,000
2.Home Office (Civil Defence Services)2,140,000
3.Police, England and Wales7,700,000
4.Prisons, England and Wales1,600,000
5.Child Care, England and Wales1,710,000
6.Fire Services, England and Wales1,150,000
7.Supreme Court of Judicature, & c.350,000
8.County Courts, & c.80,000
9.Land Registry10
10.Public Trustee10
11.Law Charges190,000
12.Miscellaneous Legal Expenses45,000
Scotland:—
13.Scottish Home Department (Civil Defence Services)97,000
14.Police21,000
15.Prisons155,000
16.Approved Schools50,000
17.Fire Services26,000
18.Scottish Land Court4,500
19.Law Charges and Courts of Law49,000
20.Department of the Registers of Scotland10
Ireland:—
21.Supreme Court of Judicature, & c., Northern Ireland20,500
22.Irish Land Purchase Services610,000
CLASS VI
1.Ministry of Education63,000,000
2.British Museum128,000
3.British Museum (Natural History)70,000
4.Imperial War Museum10,000
5.London Museum4,000
6.National Gallery32,000
7.National Maritime Museum7,500
8.National Portrait Gallery6,000
9.Wallace Collection8,000
10.Grants for Science and the Arts1,400,000

£
11.Universities and Colleges, & c., Great Britain10,000,000
12.Broadcasting5,200,000
13.Festival of Britain, 19511,000,000
Scotland:—
14.Public Education9,000,000
15.National Galleries10,000
16.National Library4,500
CLASS V
1.Ministry of Health4,750,000
2.National Health Service, England and Wales120,000,000
3.Housing, England and Wales11,000,000
4.Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues, England and Wales16,250,000
5.Registrar General's Office164,000
6.Ministry of Labour and National Service7,750,000
7.Grants in respect of Employment Schemes225,000
8.Ministry of National Insurance73,000,000
9.National Assistance Board27,750,000
10.National Insurance Audit Department39,000
11.Friendly Societies Registry18,000
12.Ministry of Town and Country Planning300,000
13.Central Land Board500,000
Scotland:—
14.Department of Health750,000
15.National Health Service14,000,000
16.Housing, Scotland3,300,000
17.Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues, Scotland2,100,000
18.Registrar General's Office23,500
CLASS VI
1.Board of Trade3,000,000
2.Services in Development Areas2,000,000
3.Financial Assistance in Development Areas350,000
4.Export Credits10
5.Export Credits (Special Guarantees)110,000
6.Ministry of Fuel and Power2,100,000
7.Office of Commissioners of Crown Lands21,000
8Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries4,600,000
9.Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Food Production Services)9,900,000
10.Surveys of Great Britain, etc.760,000
11.Forestry Commission2,400,000
12.Development Fund450,000
13.Ministry of Transport860,000
14.Roads, etc.9,610,000
15.Mercantile Marine Services170,000
16.Ministry of Civil Aviation7,000,000
17.Developments Grants100

£
18.Department of Scientific and Industrial Research1,700,000
19.State Management Districts10
Scotland:—
20.Department of Agriculture1,250,000
21.Department of Agriculture (Food Production Services)1,900,000
22.Fisheries238,000
23.Herring Industry160,000
24.State Management Districts10
CLASS VII
1.Ministry of Works2,520,000
2.Houses of Parliament Buildings265,000
3.Public Buildings, Great Britain11,350,000
3A.Oxford and Asquith Memorial3,000
4.Public Buildings Overseas770,000
5.Royal Palaces140,000
6.Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens240,000
7.Miscellaneous Works Services2,100,000
8.Rates on Government Property3,200,000
9.Stationery and Printing4,000,000
10.Central Office of Information1,000,000
11Peterhead Harbour18,000
Ireland:—
12.Works and Buildings in Ireland75,000
CLASS VIII
1.Merchant Seamen's War Pensions80,000
2.Ministry of Pensions35,000,000
3.Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions. etc.420,000
4.Superannuation and Retired Allowances2,200,000
CLASS IX
1.Ministry of Supply70,000,000
2.Ministry of Supply (Trading Services and Assistance to Industry)8,000,000
3.Ministry of Food155,000,000
4.Ministry of Transport (Shipping and War Terminal Services)8,700,000
5.Ministry of Fuel and Power (War Services)150,000
6.Foreign Office (German Section)2,750,000
7.Administration of certain African Territories750,000
8.Advances to Allies, etc.4,000,000
9.War Damage Commission500,000
10.Burma War Damage Payments120,000
Total for Civil Estimates£787,822,000

REVENUE DEPARTMENTS
£
1.Customs and Excise3,200,000
2.Inland Revenue8,300,000
3.Post Office56,000,000
Total for Revenue Departments£67,500,000
MINISTRY OF DEFENCE£273,000
Total for Civil Estimates, Estimates for Revenue Departments, and Estimate for the Ministry of Defence£855,595,000"