I move:—
That a supplementary sum not exceeding £22,310 be granted to defray the Charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending 31st March, 1947, for Salaries and Expenses in connection with Unemployment Insurance and Employment Exchanges (including Contributions to the Unemployment Fund), Unemployment Assistance, the Special Register of Agricultural and Turf Workers, Insurance Against Intermittent Unemployment, for certain services in connection with Food Allowances and for Expenses in connection with the provision of Labour for Harvest Work (9 Edw. 7, c. 7; 10 & 11 Geo. 5, c. 30; 11 Geo. 5, c. 1; 11 & 12 Geo. 5, c. 15; 12 Geo. 5, c. 7; No. 17 of 1923; Nos. 25 and 59 of 1924; No. 21 of 1926; No. 33 of 1930; Nos. 44 and 46 of 1933; No. 38 of 1935; No. 2 of 1938; No. 28 of 1939; No. 4 of 1940; No. 3 of 1941; No. 7 of 1942; No. 20 of 1943; and No. 23 of 1945).
There are three fairly large items responsible for this Vote. Firstly, there is an increase in salaries and wages as in the case of other services; secondly, the unemployment fund was bigger than was anticipated, and, therefore the two-sevenths contributed by the Government must be increased, and thirdly, there is a change in the Appropriations-in-Aid. The receipts from certain county boroughs came in about the end of the financial year 1946, but may not come in before the 31st March this year. There is just the fear that there may be a loss in the appropriations of £39,000.