Oral Answers to Questions — National Finance – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 28 January 1947.
Brigadier Maekeson:
asked the Chancellor of the exchequer what sum per head of the working population between the ages of 21 and 65 years was expended in connection with His Majesty's Stationery Office in the first nine months of 1938, 1945 and 1946. respectively.
Mr Hugh Dalton
, Bishop Auckland
2s. 4d., 12s. 1d. and 7s. 6d. respectively, gross, and 1s. 10d., 11s. 1d. and 6s. 6d. net.
The chancellor of the exchequer is the government's chief financial minister and as such is responsible for raising government revenue through taxation or borrowing and for controlling overall government spending.
The chancellor's plans for the economy are delivered to the House of Commons every year in the Budget speech.
The chancellor is the most senior figure at the Treasury, even though the prime minister holds an additional title of 'First Lord of the Treasury'. He normally resides at Number 11 Downing Street.
