EXCHEQUER on the 1st April 1923; of the RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS (not being Year ended 31st March 1924; and of the BALANCES in the EXCHEQUER on day. Temporary Advances on the credit of Ways and Means repaid Issued to the National Debt Commissioners Cunard Loan Repayments: Issued to reduce Debt under the Cunard Suez Canal Drawn Shares: Issued to reduce Debt under the Finance Act, Old Sinking Fund 1910-11:— Issued under the Finance Act, 1923, Sec. 34 Balances in the Exchequer on the 31st March 1924 At the Bank of England* 118,000 · unissued part of the Old Sinking Fund, 1907-8, which was made applicable to Expenditure Note. TOTAL ISSUES FROM REVENUE TO REDEEM DEADWEIGHT DEBT. New Sinking Fund (1923) viz.— Other Issues from Revenue to redeem Deadweight Debt M Printed under the authority of His Majesty's Stationery Office By Eyre and Spottiswoode, Ltd., East Harding Street, E.C. 4, (TOTAL EXPENDITURE UNDER CERTAIN ACTS OF PARLIAMENT.) RETURN to an Order of the Honourable The House of Commons, RETURN showing, so far as particulars are available, the total expenditure (other than out of loans) in England and Wales under certain Acts of Parliament during the years ended the 31st day of March 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921, 1922 and 1923, respectively, and the total number of persons directly benefiting from the expenditure for the year 1922, together with similar particulars for Scotland (in continuation of Parliamentary Paper, No. 139, of Session 1, 1922). To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from IMPERIAL HOUSE, KINGSWAY, LONDON, W.C. 2, and 28, ABINGDON STREET, LONDON, S.W.1; 1924. Price 3d. Net. PREFATORY NOTE. 1. The following tables give particulars of the expenditure in England and Wales and Scotland on some of the principal forms of public social service to the community, namely, those provided under the National Insurance (Health) Acts, the Unemployment Insurance Acts, the War Pensions Acts and the Ministry of Pensions Act, the Old Age Pensions Acts, the Education Acts, the Acts relating to Reformatory and Industrial Schools, the Inebriates Acts, the Public Health Acts (so far as they relate to Hospitals, the Treatment of Disease, and Maternity and Child Welfare), the Housing of the Working Classes Acts, the Acts relating to the Relief of the Poor, the Unemployed Workmen Act, the Lunacy Acts, and the Mental Deficiency Act. 2. The term "expenditure" as used in the tables is restricted to expenditure from (i) local rates, (ii) Parliamentary votes and grants, and (iii) other receipts (not being receipts from loans) accounted for by, or to Government Departments and Local Authorities, The "other receipts" include, for example, in the case of education, revenue from endowments, voluntary contributions, etc.; in the case of health insurance and unemployment insurance, the contributions of employers and employed, which provide the major part of the expenditure on those two services; in the case of housing, rents; and so forth. 3. The expenditure for the services specified is stated for the years 1891, 1901, 1911, 1921 and 1922, or the latest year for which figures are available. Where figures for 1922 are not available the year is stated in the notes on pages 7 to 12. For some of the services an estimate of the expenditure for the year 1923 is given. Comparisons between the totals for the several years are necessarily subject to the consideration that during the period to which the return relates unrecorded private expenditure on some of the services mentioned has been replaced by recorded public expenditure; for example, the amount of fees formerly paid to medical men by persons now insured under the National Insurance (Health) Acts was not recorded, and is not included in the return, while the amounts now paid to medical practitioners under those Acts form part of recorded expenditure brought into account in the tables. 4. The particular expenses which are included under each head in the tables are as stated in the notes on pages 7 to 12. The cost of any central department which is devoted wholly to one of the specified services is included in the amounts entered in respect of that service. Thus, the cost of the Board of Education has been reckoned as part of the expenditure under the Education Acts; of the Ministry of Pensions as part of the expenditure under the War Pensions Acts and the Ministry of Pensions Act. The cost of the central departments is also included in the case of National Health Insurance as part of the expenditure under the National Insurance (Health) Acts. In other cases the cost of central department administration is not included in the tables although, in some instances, it may be indicated in the notes on pages 7 to 12. The amounts included in the return as the expenditure of Local Authorities are taken from the returns which were furnished by them annually to Government Departments. The administrative expenses of m (16)21295(19240) Wt 20720-621 1000 2/24 (Item 50) A 2 |