NOTES TO TABLE II. The principal increases shown in cases where a comparison with 1914-15 is possible are explained in the following notes, but allowance must be made generally for the effect of increased prices reflected in pay and supplies : (a) Old Age Pensions.-Scale of pensions doubled by the Old Age Pensions Act, 1919. Additional charge under Blind Persons Act, 1920. Increase in the number of pensioners through growth of population. (b) Education.-Developments under the Education Acts of 1918, increased grants for higher education, and growth of grants to meet increased local expenditure, principally on teachers' salaries. (c) Agriculture.-Growth of grants for education and research, for small holdings and improvement of cultivation, and for eradication of disease and improvement of breeding of live stock; Grant to Development Fund (£250,000); State Forestry. (d) Health.-New grants for maternity and child welfare, for welfare of the blind, and for treatment of venereal disease, and increased grants for treatment of tuberculosis. (e) Health and Unemployment Insurance.-Growth of Health benefits and grants; extension of Unemployment benefit under the Acts of 1920, 1921 and 1922. (f) Police (Great Britain).-New and increased police grants from 1919. (g) Irish Land.-Payment of Land Purchase Annuities, Northern Ireland, (£659,000) under the Government of Ireland Act, 1920. (h) Foreign and Colonial Services.-Charges arising out of the war, e.g., Administration of Tanganyika (late German East Africa) (£750,000), the League of Nations, including International Labour Organisation (£130,000), extra telegrams and special missions (£90,000). (j) Administration Expenses.-The net charge for war bonus to the Civil Service falls to the amount of £2,400,000 on this head, but the Estimate for 1923-24 also includes (1) new charges, e.g., under Aliens Restrictions Acts, 1914 and TABLE III. PARTICULARS OF (I) PERSONNEL OF THE ARMY, NAVY, AND AIR FORCE AND (II) STAFFS (OTHER THAN INDUSTRIAL STAFF) EMPLOYED IN VARIOUS GOVERNMENT DEPARTMENTS. The figures of 1914 are approximate. Figures of Departmental Staffs during the war period cannot be made available without disproportionate expenditure of labour and money. (a) The War Office figures exclude Record Office and Pay Office Staffs numbering 5,000 in 1914, 35,000 at the date of the Armistice and 5,386 on the 1st January, 1923. (b) The Air Ministry Figures exclude Unit and Command Office Staffs numbering 1,300 at the date of the Armistice and 1.489 on the 1st January, 1923. (c) The War Office figures at these dates exclude the staffs of Ordnance Factories which are included in the figures for the Ministry of Munitions. (d) Ireland.-The figures for the years 1914 to 1921 inclusive include all staff engaged on Irish services. The number of such staff in 1914 was 24,800. The figures for the years 1922 and 1923 exclude staff (numbering 19,513 at 1st April, 1923), transferred to the Governments of Northern Ireland and of the Irish Free State, and staff, (numbering 5,492 at 1st April, 1923), engaged on Reserved or Agency Services in Ireland, the cost of which is met finally from Irish revenues. The staff engaged on Imperial services in connection with Ireland (ie., War Pensions, etc.) numbered 969 on 1st April, 1923; this staff is included in the table above. (41801) Wt. 1618-518 1500 5/23 H. St. G. 18 YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 1923. AN ACCOUNT of the PUBLIC INCOME and EXPENDITURE of the UNITED KINGDOM in the Year ended the 31st day of March 1923; together with the BALANCES in the EXCHEQUER on the 1st April 1922; the RECEIPTS and PAYMENTS (not being Income and Expenditure) in the Year ended 31st March 1923; and the BALANCES in the EXCHEQUER on that day. To be purchased through any Bookseller or directly from IMPERIAL HOUSE, KINGSWAY, LONDON, W.C. 2, and 28, ABINGDON STREET, LONDON, S.W. 1; 1923. Price 2d. Net. |