Table showing The Educational Department's Budget Estimates of Expenditure, 1926 - 1945 in Palestine before 1948 (Nakba), British Mandate: A Survey of Palestine: Volume II - Page 641. Chapter XVI: Social Services : Section 2: Description of Education Systems : Table 3

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(c) Municipal and local council rates; (d) Fees collected from parents;

(e) Religious rates collected by local committees (Kehilloth) under the Religious Communities Organisation Ordinance, 1926.

49. By far the greatest part of Government's expenditure on education is normally shown in the Budget estimates of the Government Department of Education but capital and recurrent expenditure on Government school buildings come under the Public Works Department and, during the war, large sums have been expended on "compensatory" (i.e. cost of living) allowances for teachers under a special vote.

The Education Department's Budget has increased from about £E.78,000 in 1920/21 to £P.536,007 in 1944/45, not including compensatory allowances to teachers. The following table 3 shows the growth of that Budget in the years since the block-grant was first paid to the Jewish system, and table 4 shows the actual expenditure by all Departments on education services in the Financial Year 1944 / -15.

Table 3.

THE EDUCATION DEPARTMENT’S BUDGET ESTIMATES OF EXPENDITURR PROM 1926/27 'TO 1944/1945.

Total estimated expenditure

Financial year* expenditure D art: ion t Percentage

on aII Heads epar men

I £P. I .CP.

1926/27 2,070,479 113,890 5.50%

1927 (1st April to 31st

December) 1,944,397 100,039 5.14%

1928 8,381,998 137,115 4.05%

1~29 2,140,032 139,789 6.53%

1930 2,536,505 143,555 5.66%

1931 2,374,866 146,988 6.19%

1982/83 2.516,394 I 159,520 6.34%

1933/34 2,704,856 179,635 6.64%

1934/35 B,230,010 I 201,498 6.24%

1935/36 4,236,202 221,087 5.22%

1936/37 6,073,502 248,243 4.00%

1937/88 7,297,688 300,742 4.12%

1938/39 5,692,671 286,065 5.03%

1939/40 6,004,739 285,272 4.75%

1940i41 7,450,355 ll02,079 4.05%

1941142'; .. •* 7,463,602 885,204 5.16%

1942/48'":' 10,258,288 458,322 4.47%

1943/44': .. •* 14,819,250 652,157 4.40%

1944/45': .. -, 18,196,594 711,916 3.91%
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* The financial year except where otherwise stated is from 1st April to 31st March, inclusive.

** Including compensatory allowances.

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