BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE

Evening Star, Issue 21036, 25 February 1932, Page 8

BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE

ESTIMATES FOR YEAR CONSIDERABLE REDUCTION. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, February 24. (Received February 25, at 10 a.m.) The Civil Service estimates are £330,000,000, compared _ with £339,000,000 last year, including the Dominions Office, £50,000, compared with £56,000; the dominions’ services, £97,000, compared with £103,000; Empire marketing, £320,000, compared with £659,000; overseas settlement, £91,000, compared with £264,000. ______ DOCUMENT FIRST OP A SERIES. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 24. , (Received February 25, at 11.30 a.m.) The first of the series of Government Estimates for the next financial year upon which the Budget to be introduced in April will be based l >vas issued to-day. The document covers the civil estimates and the estimates for the revenue departments, including pensions, education, insurance, and other grants, and Exchequer contributions to local revenue. They show a reduction on last year’s estimates from £409,514,765 to £402,027,105. The actual reduction on the civil estimates exceeds £9,000,000, but an increase in the estimated l expenditure by the revenue departments gives a net reduction as above. The principal reductions are on education (£5,466,701), roads (£4,250,000), and Pensions Ministry (£2,795,200).