[2ND ALLOTTED DAY]
Considered in Committee.
[Colonel Sir CHARLES MACANDREW in the Chair]
CIVIL ESTIMATES AND ESTIMATES FOR REVENUE DEPARTMENTS TOGETHER WITH ESTIMATE FOR THE MINISTRY OF DEFENCE, 1952–53 (VOTE ON ACCOUNT)
Motion made and Question proposed,
That a sum, not exceeding £918,376,000 be granted to Her Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the charges for the following Civil and Revenue Departments and for the Ministry of Defence for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1953, namely:
| CIVIL ESTIMATES | ||
| CLASS I | ||
| £ | ||
| 1. | House of Lords | 35,000 |
| 2. | House of Commons | 300,000 |
| 3. | Registration of Electors | 300,000 |
| 4. | Treasury and Subordinate Departments | 1,150,000 |
| 5. | Privy Council Office | 11,000 |
| 6. | Privy Seal Office. | 2,500 |
| 7. | Charity Commission | 27,000 |
| 8. | Civil Service Commission | 133,000 |
| 9. | Exchequer and Audit Department | 147,000 |
| 10. | Government Actuary | 15,000 |
| 11. | Government Chemist | 80,500 |
| 12. | Government Hospitality | 25,000 |
| 13. | The Mint | 10 |
| 14. | National Debt Office | 10 |
| 15. | National Savings Committee | 265,000 |
| 16. | Overlapping Income Tax Payments | 3,500 |
| 17. | Public Record Office | 30,500 |
| 18. | Public Works Loan Commission | 10 |
| 19. | Repayments to the Local Loans Fund. | 6,000 |
| 20. | Royal Commissions, &c. | 49,870 |
| 21. | Secret Service. | 1,500,000 |
| 22. | Tithe Redemption Commission | 10 |
| 23. | Silver | 10 |
| 24. | American Aid Counterpart Funds | 400,000 |
| 25. | Miscellaneous Expenses | 50,500 |
| Scotland:— | ||
| 26. | Scottish Home Department | 285,000 |
| 27. | Scottish Record Office | 9,500 |
| CLASS II | ||
| 1. | Foreign Service | 4,300,000 |
| 2. | Foreign Office Grants and Services | 10,000,000 |
| 3. | British Council. | 600,000 |
| 4. | United Nations | 1,400,000 |
| £ | ||
| 5. | Commonwealth Relations Office | 580,000 |
| 6. | Commonwealth Services | 4,350,000 |
| 7. | Oversea Settlement | 14,000 |
| 8. | Colonial Office. | 325,000 |
| 9. | Colonial and Middle Eastern Services. | 9,000,000 |
| 10. | Overseas Food Corporation | 850,000 |
| 11. | Development and Welfare (Colonies, &c.) | 5,000,000 |
| 12. | Development and Welfare (South African High Commission Territories) | 160,000 |
| 13. | Imperial War Graves Commission | 750,000 |
| CLASS III | ||
| 1. | Home Office | 1,075,000 |
| 2. | Home Office (Civil Defence Services) | 3,250,000 |
| 3. | Police, England and Wales | 10,350,000 |
| 4. | Prisons, England and Wales | 2,100,000 |
| 5. | Child Care, England and Wales | 2,325,000 |
| 6. | Fire Services, England and Wales | 1,100,000 |
| 7. | Supreme Court of Judicature, &c. | 400,000 |
| 8. | County Courts | 125,000 |
| 9. | Land Registry | 10 |
| 10. | Public Trustee | 10 |
| 11. | Law Charges | 180,000 |
| 12. | Miscellaneous Legal Expenses | 32,000 |
| Scotland:— | ||
| 13. | Scottish Home Department (Civil Defence Services) | 465,000 |
| 14. | Police | 32,000 |
| 15. | Prisons | 212,000 |
| 16. | Approved Schools | 65,000 |
| 17. | Fire Services. | 18,000 |
| 18. | Scottish Land Court | 5,500 |
| 19. | Law Charges and Courts of Law | 60,000 |
| 20. | Department of the Registers of Scotland | 10 |
| Ireland:— | ||
| 21. | Supreme Court of Judicature, &c, Northern Ireland | 13,000 |
| 22. | Irish Land Purchase Services | 608,000 |
| CLASS IV | ||
| 1. | Ministry of Education | 66,000,000 |
| 2. | British Museum. | 142,000 |
| 3. | British Museum (Natural History). | 85,000 |
| 4. | Imperial War Museum | 10,500 |
| 5. | London Museum | 6,000 |
| 6. | National Gallery | 35,000 |
| 7. | National Maritime Museum. | 10,000 |
| 8. | National Portrait Gallery | 6,500 |
| 9. | Wallace Collection | 10,000 |
| 10. | Grants for Science and the Arts. | 1,650.000 |
| 11. | Universities and Colleges, &c, Great Britain | 12,000,000 |
| 12. | Broadcasting | 4,750,000 |
| 13. | Festival of Britain, 1951 | 500,000 |
| £ | ||
| Scotland:— | ||
| 14. | Public Education | 9,100,000 |
| 15. | National Galleries | 12,000 |
| 16. | National Library | 6,500 |
| CLASS V | ||
| 1. | Ministry of Housing and Local Government | 2,875,000 |
| 2. | Housing, England and Wales | 9,000,000 |
| 3. | Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues, England and Wales | 19,320,000 |
| 4. | Ministry of Health | 2,000,000 |
| 5. | National Health Service. England and Wales | 128,450,000 |
| 6. | Registrar General's Office | 200,000 |
| 7. | Ministry of Labour and National Service | 7,250,000 |
| 8. | Grants in respect of Employment Schemes | 200,000 |
| 9. | Ministry of National Insurance | 49,000,000 |
| 10. | National Assistance Board | 35,150,000 |
| 11. | Friendly Societies Registry | 22,000 |
| 12. | Central Land Board | 1,000,000 |
| Scotland: | ||
| 13. | Department of Health | 1,500,000 |
| 14. | National Health Service | 14,750,000 |
| 15. | Housing | 3,500,000 |
| 16. | Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues | 1,910,000 |
| 17. | Registrar General's Office | 23,000 |
| CLASS VI | ||
| 1. | Board of Trade. | 2,200,000 |
| 2. | Services in Development Areas | 1,370,000 |
| 3. | Financial Assistance in Development Areas | 1,000,000 |
| 4. | Export Credits | 10 |
| 5. | Export Credits (Special Guarantees) | 300,000 |
| 6. | Ministry of Fuel and Power | 1,300,000 |
| 7. | Office of Commissioners of Crown Lands | 26,000 |
| 8. | Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries | 8,300,000 |
| 9. | Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (Food Production Services). | 10,750,000 |
| 10. | White Fish Authority | 120,000 |
| 11. | Surveys of Great Britain, etc | 900,000 |
| 12. | Forestry Commission | 2,200,000 |
| 13. | Development Fund | 480,000 |
| 14. | Ministry of Transport | 850,000 |
| 15. | Roads, etc. | 11,472,000 |
| 16. | Mercantile Marine Services | 174,000 |
| 17. | Ministry of Civil Aviation | 4,500,000 |
| 18. | Department of Scientific and Industrial Research | 1,780,000 |
| 19. | State Management Districts | 10 |
| Scotland: | ||
| 20. | Department of Agriculture | 1,250,000 |
| 21 | Department of Agriculture (Food Production Services) | 960,000 |
| 22. | Fisheries | 390,000 |
| 23. | Herring Industry | 151,000 |
| 24. | State Management Districts | 10 |
| CLASS VII | ||
| £ | ||
| 1. | Ministry of Works | 2,775,000 |
| 2. | Houses of Parliament Buildings | 150,000 |
| 3. | Public Buildings, Great Britain | 9,600,000 |
| 4. | Public Buildings Overseas | 650,000 |
| 5. | Royal Palaces | 140,000 |
| 6. | Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens | 230,000 |
| 7. | Miscellaneous Works Services | 250,000 |
| 8. | Rates on Government Property | 3,800,000 |
| 9. | Stationery and Printing | 5,700,000 |
| 10. | Central Office of Information | 600,000 |
| 11. | Peterhead Harbour Ireland: | 19,000 |
| 12. | Works and Buildings in Ireland | 70,000 |
| CLASS VIII | ||
| 1. | Merchant Seamen's War Pensions. | 72,000 |
| 2. | Ministry of Pensions | 30,000,000 |
| 3. | Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions, &c | 400,000 |
| 4. | Superannuation and Retired Allowances | 3,200,000 |
| CLASS IX | ||
| 1. | Ministry of Supply | 72,000,000 |
| 2. | Ministry of Supply (Assistance to Industry, Scrap Recovery, &c.). | 1,700,000 |
| 3. | Ministry of Supply (Purchasing (Repayment) Services) | 10 |
| 4. | Royal Ordnance Factories | 5,000,000 |
| 5. | Ministry of Materials | 400,000 |
| 6. | Ministry of Materials (Trading Services and Assistance to Industry) | 5,000,000 |
| 7. | Ministry of Food | 150,000,000 |
| 8. | Ministry of Transport (Shipping and Special Services). | 1,200,000 |
| 9. | Ministry of Fuel and Power (Special Services) | 3,100,000 |
| 10. | Foreign Office (German Section) | 1,000,000 |
| 11. | Administration of certain African Territories | 209,000 |
| 12. | Advances to Allies, &c. | 800,000 |
| 13. | War Damage Commission | 500,000 |
| 14. | Burma War Damage Payments | 57,000 |
| 15. | Board of Trade (Strategic Reserves). | 7,000 |
| 16. | Ministry of Supply (Strategic Reserves) | 70,000 |
| 17. | Ministry of Materials (Strategic Reserves) | 28,500,000 |
| 18. | Ministry of Food (Strategic Reserves) | 15,000,000 |
| 19. | Tin | 10 |
| Total for Civil Estimates. | £827,716,000 | |
| REVENUE DEPARMENTS | ||
| £ | ||
| 1. | Customs and Excise | 3,860,000 |
| 2. | Inland Revenue | 11,000,000 |
| 3. | Post Office | 70,000,000 |
| Total for Revenue Departments | £84,860,000 | |
| Ministry of Defence | £5,800,000 | |
| Total for Civil Estimates and Estimates for Revenue Departments together with Estimate for the Ministry of Defence | £918,376,000 | |