APPARENT INCREASE

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 48, 28 February 1929, Page 11

APPARENT INCREASE

CIVIL SERVICE ESTIMATES

DUE TO DE-RATING SCHEME

Crilish Official Wireless. ■ BUGBY, 26th February.

Although tho Civil Service Estimates for the coming financial year, amounting to £308,500,000, represent :.n apparent increase of over £13,000,000 on expenditure under this head during the past yeaiy that expenditure includes over £2,000,000 passed during tho year as supplementary estimates, and the increase on last Budget figure amounts to £15,500,000. Nearly tho whole of this iiiereasu is accounted for by the scheme to relieve industry, agriculture, and the transport trades of rates under the de-rating scheme. Tho Chancellor of the Exchequer has, however, made special provision for the finance of tihe do-rating scheme, and, when this is taken into account, a net departmental increase of only £108,000 is shown.

Nates dealing with de-rating are as follows: Grant to rating authorities in England and Wales, £12,000,000; grant to gating authorities in Scotland, £.1,20(0,000; railway freight rates, £2,300,000; private mineral railways and lacal rates grants, £27,000. With the exception of freight rebates the grants will not become payable- until after Jet October nest, when the derating scheme as a whole will come into operation.

The estimated expenditure on war pensions, education, old ago pensions, and services of Ministries of Health and Labour are the principal items included irs Civil Service Estimates,