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Orders of the Day — Civil Estimates and Estimates for Revenue Departments, 1945 (Vote on Account)

– in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 2 March 1945.

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Motion made, and Question proposed, That a sum, not exceeding £241,926,000, be granted to His Majesty, on account, for or towards defraying the charges for the following Civil and Revenue Departments (including Education and Broadcasting, Pensions, Health Insurance, Unemployment Insurance and Assistance, Roads and other grants and Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues) for the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1946, namely:

CIVIL ESTIMATES
CLASS I
£
House of Lords Offices26,000
House of Commons155,000
Registration of Electors230,000
Treasury and Subordinate Departments418,000
Privy Council Office7,500
Privy Seal Office3,000
Charity Commission12,000
Civil Service Commission32,500
Exchequer and Audit Department100,500
Government Actuary8,000
Government Chemist40,000
Government Hospitality10,000
The Mint10
National Debt Office500
National Savings Committee180,000
Public Record Office15,000
Public Works Loan Commission6,000
Repayments to the Local Loans Fund14,000
Royal Commissions, etc.26,000
Miscellaneous Expenses32,000
Secret Service10
Tithe Redemption Commission10
Ministry of Town and Country Planning145,000
Scotland:
Scottish Home Department82,500
CLASS II
Foreign Office950,000
Diplomatic and Consular Establishments, etc.1,600,000
British Council1,000,000
League of Nations1,000
Dominions Office36,000
£
Dominion Services115,000
Oversea Settlement10
Colonial Office175,000
Colonial and Middle Eastern Services2,000,000
Development and Welfare (Colonies, etc.)1,600,000
Development and Welfare (South African High Commission Territories)100,000
India and Burma, Services750,000
Imperial War Graves Commission40,000
CLASS III
Home Office400,000
Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum44,000
Police, England and Wales7,300,000
Prisons, England and Wales650,000
Approved Schools, etc., England and Wales250,000
Supreme Court of Judicature, etc.10
County Courts150,000
Land Registry10
Public Trustee9,000
Law Charges70,000
Miscellaneous Legal Expenses39,000
Scotland:
Police300,000
Prisons68,000
Approved Schools, &c.40,000
Scottish Land Court3,500
Law Charges and Courts of Law33,500
Register House, Edinburgh5,000
Ireland:
Northern Ireland Services4,000
Supreme Court of Judicature, etc., Northern Ireland20,500
Irish Land Purchase Services617,000
CLASS IV
Ministry of Education29,000,000
British Museum55,000
British Museum(Natural History)40,000
Imperial War Museum4,000
London Museum2,500
National Gallery14,500
National Maritime Museum3,500
National Portrait Gallery4,000
Wallace Collection5,000
Scientific Investigation, etc.300,000
Universities and Colleges, etc., Great Britain2,000,000
Broadcasting4,000,000
Scotland:
Public Education5,000,000
National Galleries5,500
National Library1,500
CLASS V
Ministry of Health5,500,000
Board of Control95,000
Registrar-General's Office108,000
Ministry of Labour and National Service7,000,000
Grants in respect of Employment Schemes550,000
Commissioner for Special Areas (England and Wales)10
Special Areas Fund360,000
Financial Assistance in Special and other Areas34,000
£
Ministry of National Insurance14,250,000
Assistance Board1,850,000
National Insurance Audit Department49,000
Friendly Societies Registry15,000
Old Age Pensions21,000,000
Widows', Orphans', and Old Age Contributory Pensions6,000,000
Supplementary Pensions20,000,000
Scotland:
Department of Health1,400,000
Board of Control8,500
Registrar-General's Office19,000
Commissioner for Special Areas (Scotland)10
CLASS VI
Board of Trade800,000
Mercantile Marine Services504,000
Department of Overseas Trade187,000
Export Credits10
Ministry of Fuel and Power1,000,000
Office of Commissioners of Crown Lands12,000
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries1,950,000
Surveys of Great Britain, etc440,000
Forestry Commission175,000
Roads, etc.3,500,000
Miscellaneous Transport Services17,000
Development Fund330,000
Development Grants140,200
Department of Scientific and Industrial Research350,000
State Management Districts10
Clearing Offices10
Scotland:
Department of Agriculture321,500
Fisheries30,500
Herring Industry145,000
CLASS VII
Houses of Parliament Buildings41,000
Miscellaneous Legal Buildings, Great Britain40,000
Osborne9,000
Ministry of Works2,097,500
Miscellaneous Works Services2,922,000
Public Buildings Overseas113,000
Royal Palaces39,000
Royal Parks and Pleasure Gardens76,000
Rates on Government Property2,500,000
Stationery and Printing1,200,000
Peterhead Harbour5,000
Works and Buildings in Ireland15,000
CLASS VIII
Merchant Seamen's War Pensions101,000
Ministry of Pensions14,000,000
Royal Irish Constabulary Pensions, etc450,000
Superannuation and Retired Allowances1,400,000
CLASS IX
Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues, England and Wales17,500,000
Exchequer Contributions to Local Revenues, Scotland1,127,000
CLASS X£
Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (War Services)10
Ministry of Aircraft Production10
Ministry of Economic Warfare10
Ministry of Food10
Ministry of Fuel and Power (War Services)10
Ministry of Health (War Services)10
Ministry of Home Security10
Ministry of Information10
Ministry of Labour and National Service (War Services)10
Postal and Telegraph Censorship Department10
Ministry of Production10
Ministry of Supply10
War Damage (Business and Private Chattels)10
War Damage Commission10
Ministry of War Transport10
Ministry of Works (War Services)10
Scotland:
Department of Agriculture for Scotland (War Services)10
Department of Health for Scotland (War Services)10
Scottish Home Department (War Services)10
Total for Civil Estimates£192,126,000
REVENUE DEPARTMENTS
£
Customs and Excise2,000,000
Inland Revenue4,800,000
Post Office43,000,000
Total for Revenue Departments£49,800,000
Total for Civil Estimates and Estimates for Revenue Departments£241,926,000