Government Expenditure, Balances, Railways and Ports in Palestine. British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume I - Page 125. Chapter IV: The Central Government and Its Finances:Government Finances.

CHAPTER IV.

Expenditure.

54. Expenditure during the years shown above is given in the following table. The heads under which it is classified comprise the following branches of expenditure : "General services" include all expenditure on administrative, development and social services with the exception of the police and prisons and other security forces; "Security" comprises all expenditure on that service including police and prisons but excluding other war measures; "War Services" include such additional war-time expenditure as is specifically accountable, e.g. food subsidization, high cost of living allowances, censorship and economic control, passive defence , assistance to the citrus industry.

Head 1924/25 1929/30 1934/35 1938/39 1939/40 1943/44 1944/45

Genernl Services 1,376,122 1,016,487 2,387,422 4,340,725 4,087,425 5,618,405 6,038,661

Security

476,863 629,502 842,588 1,351,947 1,915,398 2,508,491 3,275,701

War Services

1,915 6,692,354 8,882,22~

Total

expenditure 1,852,985 2,245,989 3,230,010 5,692,672 6,004, 738 14.819,250 18,196,594

Balances.

55. Between the years 1932 and 1936, Palestine accumulated a substantial surplus balance. This was diminshed by the deficits of 1936-37 and 1!)37-38 but had again passed the £P.5 million mark in ID41-42, the last year in which there was a surplus in the financial working of the year. Since then the surplus balance has been entirely dissipated and it was necessary to appropriate to revenue £P.149,353 from Joan moneys in 1U44-45. The budget for 1945-46 was framed on the basis of an anticipated deficit of approximately £P.2,750,000.

Railways and Ports.

56. 'The finances of the railways and ports, while under the control of the High Commissioner and Secretary of State, are distinct from those of the Government. The estimates for the railways and ports are shown as appendices to the Government estimates. and expenditure under them requires the sanction of the Appropriation Ordinance as in the case of Government expenditure.

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