UNCLASSIFIED SERVICES.

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COAL MINING INDUSTRY SUBVENTION.

I. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1927 for a SUBVENTION IN AID OF WAGES IN THE COAL MINING INDUSTRY.

Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds.

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

Further provision is made for the payment of the temporary subvention in aid of wages in the Coal Mining Industry to be applied in the manner explained in White Paper Cmd. 2488 of the 4th August, 1925.

At the time the original Estimate was framed, the cost of the subvention for the months of March and April was necessarily conjectural, and, consequently, the amount required to meet the charge falling into the current financial year could not be predicted with certainty. On the basis of the information now available it is estimated that a further sum of £250,000 (making £4,350,000 in all) will be required.

(SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE, 1926).

1926.

SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE.

ESTIMATE of a further SUм required to be voted for the SERVICE of the Year ending 31st March, 1927.

Three Million Five Hundred and Forty-five Thousand Pounds.

(Presented by His Majesty's Command.)

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1926

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The following Supplementary Estimates for 1926 have been presented to date :

I. SUPPLEMENTARY ESTIMATE of the Amount required in the Year ending 31 March 1927 for RELIEF ARISING OUT OF UNEMPLOYMENT.

Three Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Pounds.

II. HEAD under which this Vote will be accounted for by the
MINISTRY OF LABOUR.

An aggregate sum of £1,925,000 was provided in the Original
Estimate and in the Supplementary Estimate (H.C. 104 of
1926) for meeting expenditure on loans to Local Authorities
for the purpose of enabling them to carry out approved
works for the relief of unemployment, to distressed Local
Authorities in exceptional cases for their general purposes,
and to Poor Law Authorities in necessitous areas in Great
Britain who are unable to meet claims upon them for relief.
In consequence of the stoppage of work in the coal mining
industry the expenditure will be larger than was antici-
pated, and it is estimated that a further sum of £3,250,000
will be required.

Part of this Vote is required to make repayment of advances
from the Civil Contingencies Fund ...

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3,250,000