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Official: Cabinet: Standing Committee on Expenditure: Papers 13 - 27., 10 Feb 1925 - 17 Dec 1925

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Reference Code: GBR/0014/CHAR 22/52

Scope and Contents

Includes papers from various individuals on various subjects, including: Leo Amery, Secretary of State for the Colonies, on marketing Empire foodstuffs in Britain; extracts from speeches by Leo Amery, WSC, (Chancellor of the Exchequer), Stanley Baldwin, (Prime Minister), and from a meeting of the Council of Agriculture, on Empire foodstuffs; a Treasury memorandum on admission fees for national galleries and museums; a Treasury and Board of Education statement on the reduction of Education estimates; a Board of Education draft circular to Local Education Authorities on estimates; Sir Philip Cunliffe-Lister [earlier Sir Philip Lloyd-Greame, later 1st Lord Swinton], President of the Board of Trade, on the Bankruptcy and Companies Winding-up (Fees) Bill; Treasury memoranda on economies in the Health services and the surplus in the Navy, Army and Air Force Insurance Fund; Sir William Mitchell-Thomson [later 1st Lord Selsdon], Postmaster General, on Post Office revenue and expenditure; Sir Warren Fisher, Secretary to the Treasury, on Civil Service administration; WSC, Chancellor of the Exchequer, on the Road Fund; a Treasury memorandum on the Road Fund and the revision of car taxation and road grants; 4th Lord Salisbury, [earlier Lord Cranborne], the Lord Privy Seal, on public opinion on the economy; Sir Alfred Watson, the Government Actuary, on the reduction of the State grant to the National Health Insurance Fund; Wilfrid Ashley, Minister of Transport, on the Road Fund. Papers 17, 20 and 25 not present.

Dates

  • Creation: 10 Feb 1925 - 17 Dec 1925

Conditions Governing Access

Open

Extent

1 file(s) (1 bound file (79 folios))

Language of Materials

English

Former / Other Reference

NE 13 - NE 27

Repository Details

Part of the Churchill Archives Centre Repository

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