Vol. 211 No. 8
I move:
That a sum not exceeding £128,250 be granted to complete the sum necessary to defray the charge which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the 31st day of March, 1965, for the Salaries and Expenses of the Office of Attorney General, etc., and for the Expenses of Criminal Prosecutions and other Law Charges including a Grant in Relief of certain Expenses payable by Statute out of Local Rates.
Could the Minister tell us why the proportionate increase in subhead E is so large? It is an increase of approximately 30 per cent.
I think I explained, when bringing in a Supplementary Estimate last year for £10,000 for a number of unusually big cases—one of them was the fluoridation case—that the money was necessary but when that Supplementary Estimate is taken into account, there is actually a reduction in the year.
What I did not understand was why this one subhead was so much higher and subhead F, for example, was the same. If both had been higher, it would have seemed to me to be more natural.
Taking the Supplementary Estimate into account, it is not higher this year.
I see.
