NEW SERVICE.

UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.

9.

EMERGENCY SERVICES.

I. ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1927 for certain Expenses incurred in Setting up and Maintaining Organisations for supplying the Necessities of Life and in connection with the Maintenance of Order during an EMERGENCY and for Grants in respect of Emergency Police Expenditure.

Four Hundred and Thirty-three Thousand Pounds.

II. SUBHEADS under which this Vote will be accounted for by the HOME OFFICE.

1926.

£

A. CIVIL COMMISSIONER ORGANISATION AND MIS

(NET)

...

...

...

CELLANEOUS SERVICES

B.-FOOD ORGANISATIONS (ENGLAND AND WALES)

C.-TRANSPORT ORGANISATIONS

WALES) ...

...

D.-COAL ORGANISATIONS

E. BRITISH GAZETTE (NET)...

F.-CIVIL CONSTABULARY RESERVE

G. GRANTS IN RESPECT OF POLICE EXPENDITURE

78,000

...

119,000

(ENGLAND AND

Provision is required to meet expenditure and commitments in connection with the General Strike and the Coal Stoppage.

A sum of 97,8101. has been advanced from the Civil Contingencies Fund and a corresponding amount of the Vote is required to make repayment to that Fund.

B. FOOD ORGANISATIONS (ENGLAND AND WALES)
(NET)-

Expenses of the Food Organisations (including salaries,
wages, travelling, office and incidental expenses) and the
cost of distribution of food.

The cost of the Milk Pool is recoverable from the Trade,
but provision is made for expenditure in connection
with the distribution of other food supplies to meet
temporary local shortages ...

£

119,000

Expenses of the Transport Organisations (including
salaries, wages, travelling, office and incidental expenses)
and expenditure on miscellaneous transport services

D.-COAL ORGANISATIONS

Expenses of the Coal Organisations (including salaries,
wages, travelling, etc.) and expenditure in connection
with the control of the consumption and distribution |
of coal

35,000

G.-GRANTS IN RESPECT OF POLICE EXPENDITUREProvision is made for additional grants to Police Authorities in respect of the expenditure of those Authorities directly attributable to the Emergency. The additional grants will be merged in, and subject to the same conditions in regard to computation and issue as, the grants in respect of normal police expenditure for which provision is made in the Estimates for Police, England and Wales (Class III, 7), and Police, Scotland (Class III, 14)

100,000

58164

I. ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1927 to provide for the purchase and importation of Coal in connection with the Stoppage in the Coal Industry.

Three Million Pounds.

II. HEAD under which this Vote will be accounted for by the MINES DEPARTMENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE.

1926.

PURCHASE AND IMPORTATION OF COAL ...

£ 3,000,000

Provision is made for the purchase and importation of Coal (including freight and demurrage etc.) on Government account for use in the maintenance of supplies to public utility, food-producing and other essential undertakings and to domestic consumers. For so long as the stoppage continues, the coal will be sold at a price estimated to cover the total cost, and receipts will be used to make further purchases. The amount voted will thus be used (a) to finance the original purchases until receipts begin to come in and (b) to cover any loss which may be incurred on the liquidation of stocks not resold when the stoppage in the Industry comes to an end.

The transactions will be included in a Trading Account in accordance with the provisions of Section 5 of the Exchequer and Audit Departments Act, 1921 A sum of 100,000l. has been advanced from the Civil Contingencies Fund and a corresponding amount of the Vote is required to make repayment to that Fuad.

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