BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21579, 26 February 1932, Page 7

BRITISH CIVIL SERVICE

ESTIMATES FOR THE YEAR THE PRINCIPAL DECREASES. LONDON, February 24. 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 £2,64,000. THE REVENUE DEPARTMENTS. INCREASED EXPENDITURE. (Britlsb Official Wireless.) RUGBY, February 24. 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 was issued today, 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 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).