CIVIL ESTIMATES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 37, 27 February 1937, Page 10

CIVIL ESTIMATES

(Sritish OlEclal Wireless.)

Coming Year's Figures Itf 1 ^ritain HIGHER T0TALS

RUGBY, Feb. 25,' . The.civxl. estimates an^n estimates foi 'the revenue departments,- including ' jpensions, education, ihsuranca and ■other grants and exchequer contnhtt* jtions to local ^evenues have been issued [in respect to the coming. financial year« The total estimate /Ss £494,278,203 | compared with the net estimate lasi jyear of £461,694,773, .The' prineipal totals are: Foreign • Office. £139,956, agaifist £179,746; Post Office £72,328/ 000, against £82,492,300; Unemployed Assistance Board £51,260,000 against 247,000,000; Old Age Pensions, £45,319/ 000, against £44,321,000; Board of Education, £49,361,959, against £48,065,726; Ministry of Pensions,. £40,300,000, against £41,400,000; Exchequer cqntributioxis to local xevenues in England • and Wales, £47,502,006' against £39,492/ * 947; and in Scotland £6,890,000 against - £5,699,480; Ministry 'of La'oour, £23,; ' 838,000 against £21,628,150. The road fnnd in previons years wai i financed by issucs from the Consolidat" • ed Fund., Thia policy has been classi' ' fied. In the present estimates £15,500/ * 000 from thfe Exchequer is set asidl - for roads. The . Exchequer provisioa • for widows, orphans and old' age cpn« * tributory pensions is estinlated at £16,000,000 against £15,000,000. Estimates under -the headings of police £12,446,188, inland revenue £7,923,000 and customs and excise £5,973,100 show little change, but the Home Office estimate which was £1,876,259 last year, is £5;776, 957 for 1937-38. v