DAY IN PARLIAMENT
£10,524,453 VOTED
The House of Representatives made a flying start on the consideration of the general Estimates of Expenditure for the present financial year yesterday, 22 items aggregating over £10.524,453 being passed in about seven hours. The first item, which normally occupies about a sitting day, was disposed of during the first half of the afternoon sitting, and the largest vote passed during the day, £4,025,462 for the Post Office Account, was passed in 17 minutes. The majority of the items were minor ones, the biggest votes apart from the Post Office Account being £2.717.722 for the Labour Department, £1,649,000 for the Department of Agriculture, £357,849 for the Public Trustees' Office, and £286,440 for Justice and Prisons. Although a large number of questions were asked by members no vote met with any signs of opposition. The House rose at 11.25 P.m. „
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Evening Post, Volume CXXX, Issue 21, 24 July 1940, Page 8
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