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FEBRUARY 26, 1925 THE AIR ESTIMATES A Net Increase of £652,000 THE Air Estimates for the financial year 1925-26 were issued on February 19, and show a net increase over last year's estimates of £'652,000. The gross estimate is £21,319,300, but appropriations-in-aid are expected to reach the value of £5,806,300, thus reducing the total to £'15,513,000, as com- pared with a net estimate of £14,511,000 for the year 1924-25. Owing to supplementary estimates the figure of actual expenditure (which is the one given in this year's paper) during last year was slightly greater, i.e., £14,861,000. Out of the net total just given, non-effective services account for a net estimate of £143,000, representing an increase, under this head, of £10,000. There is also an increase of 1,000 in per- sonnel, i.e., from 35,000 to 36,000. Effective services are estimated to require the following amounts :• — Net Estimates. Votes. £1925-26. £1924-25. 1. Pay, etc., of the K.A.F. .. 3.412,000 2.941,000 2. Ouartenng, stores (except technical) Supplies and Transport . . .. .. 1.459,000 1,452.000 3. Technical and warlike stores (including experimental and research servicesi . . . . 5.650,000 6,050,000 4. Works, buildings and land .. 2,572,000 2,127,000 5. Medical services . . . . 204,000 195,000 6. Educational services . . . . 486,000 480,000 7. Auxiliary and reserve lorces. . 348,000 284,000 S. Civil aviation . . . . . . 357.000 355,000 9. Meteorological and miscel- laneous effective services. . 131,000 134.000 lit. Air Ministry 751,000 710,000 £14,728,000 133,000 414,861,000 Total effective services. . £15.370,000 1 1. Non-effective services (half- pay, pensions, etc.) . . 143,000 Total effective and non-effec- tive services .. .. •» 15.513,000 Total net increase . . . . £652.000 Personnel The grouping and numbers of persons this year are as follows :—Under Vote 1 : Air officers. 21 ; Commissioned Officers, 3,033 ; Warrant Officers. 271 : Non-Commissioned Officers. 4,205: Airmen. 21,147 ; Hoys, 403. Total Votel. 29.080. Under Vote 3 : Commissioned Officers. 33 ; Warrant Officers, 2 ; Non-Commissioned Officers, 8 ; Airmen, 9. Total Vote 3 : 52. Under Vote 5 : Commissioned Officers, 218 ; Warrant Officers. 12 ; Non-Commissioned Officers, 190; Airmen, 1,213. Total Vote 5, 1.633. Under Vote 6: Air Officers, 3; Commissioned Officers. 150; Cadets, 130: Warrant Officers, 45 ; Non-Commissioned Officers, 400 ; Airmen, 2.003 ; Boys, 2,149. Total Vote 6, 4.880. Under Vote 7 : Commissioned Officers. 25 ; Warrant Officers, 7 ; Non-Commissioned Officers. 47 : Airmen. 128. Total Vote 7, 207. Under Vole 10: Air Officers, 11 ; Commissioned Officers. 133 ; Warrant Officers, 1 : Non-Commissioned Officers. 3. Total Vote 10, 148. It is pointed out that the numbers provided lor under Votes 1 and 5 include Army personnel attached to the Royal Air Force. Financial Expenditure Under Vote 1 the summarised figures are as follows : Pay and personal allowances of officers, £1,394,700 ; pay and personal allowances of men, £2,3r>l,400 ; marriage allowance, f 122.000; miscellaneous allowances, £h">,900 ; civilians £731,300 : service gratuities to officers and men on discharge, £8,000 ; recruiting staff and expenses, £18,200. Gross total, 7'4.641.500. Appropriations-in-aid reduce this to the net f.gure of £3,412,000. The net increase under this Vote is £471 000. Under Vote 2 the summarized figures are : Lodging allow- ances and billeting, £! 12.000; barrack services, £57,000: fuel and light /222 0(H) ; general stores, £209,000 : clothing £313,000 • provisions and horses, £926,000 ; transport, /520 000 Gross total £2,359.000. Appropriations-m-aid, £900,000. Net total, £1.459,000. Net increase, £.7,000. As in previous years" the most interesting of all is Vote 3, Technical and Warlike Stores, which provides for the follow- ing amounts : Aeroplanes, seaplanes, engines and spares, £5 864 000- Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, i37 000 • Aeronautical Inspection Department, £151,000; aircraft, technical and warlike stores, £198,000 ; armament and ammunition, £415.000 : electrical stores, £'296,000 ; miscellaneous research, £253,500 ; miscellaneous materials, £300,000 ; balloons and hangars, £42,000 : mechanical and other transport, £309,000; petrol" and oil, £,458,000; war liabilities (rewards to inventors and miscellaneous claims), £57,500 : airships, purchase of. £60,000 ; airship develop- ment, £440,000. Gross total, /8~ 881,000. Appropriations- in-aid, £2,931.000. Deduct for probable underspending on the Vote as a whole £300,000. Net total, £5.650,000, repre- senting a net increase of £400,000. ft is of interest to note that under sub-head A (aeroplanes, seaplanes, engines and spares) the following amounts are contemplated : Complete machines, £2,908,000 (£2.789.700 in 1924-25). Complete engines, £1,537,000 (£1,450,700 in 1924-25). Machine spares, parachutes and miscellaneous, £859,000. Engine spares, £560,000, The increase under this subhead is £719,500. The summarised statement under Vote 4 is as follows : Staff for works services, £257,000 ; new works, additions and alterations amounting to £2,000 each and upwards, £1,806,000; ditto under £2.000, "£93,500 ; ordinary repairs, renewals and maintenance, £624,000 ; grants in aid of works, £9.000 ; purchase of lands and buildings, £400,000 ; rents, compensations and reinstatements, £88,000 ; incidental expenses of Air Ministry estates, £10,000 ; provision of telephone and telegraph service, £1,000 ; miscellaneous works services. £12.000 : stores and plant for works (net), £38,000 : machine tools, £19,800. Gross total. £3,282,300. Deduct for probable underspending £200.000, and for appro- priations in aid £510,300. Net total~£2,572,Q00, representing a net increase of £445,000. The Medical Services (Vote 5) are estimated to requiie £204,000, as follows :—Pay and personal allowances of officers. £133,000 : pay and personal allowances of airmen, £116,600: nursing service, £32,600; fees, etc.. to civil medical practitioners, £4,500 ; civilians employed in hospitals and sick quarters, £8,500 ; medical stores and supplies, £16.500 ; payments to hospitals, £36,500 ; miscellaneous charges, £7,300. Gross total £355,500. Deduct appropria- tions in aid, £151,500. Net total, /204.000. or a net increase of £9,000. Educational Services (Vote 6) are estimated to require the following amounts : R.A.F. Staff College. Andover, £13,000 ; K.A.F. "Cadet College, Boys' Wing, Cranwell, £185,500 ; School of technical Training (Boys), Halton, £256,500 ; general and vocational training of airmen, £44.100 ; mis- cellaneous educational services, £3.900 : gross total, £503,000. Deduct appropriations in aid, £17.000 ; net total, £486.000, a net increase of £6.000. Vote 7, Auxiliary and Reserve Forces, is divided this year into three sections, owing to the initial formation of Special Reserve and Auxiliary Air Force Units. The figures under the various subheads are as follows:—R.A.F. Reserve: Pay and personal allowances of permanent staff, £4.900 ; pay and personal allowances during training, £17,500 ; reserve pay, £147,000 ; capitation payments to civil companies for training, etc., courses. £130,000 : miscellaneous expenses, £2,600. Special Reserve : Pay and personal allowances of regular staff, £13,000 ; training, etc.. £1,600 ; miscellaneous expenses. £500. Auxiliary Air F.>rce : Pay and personal allowances "of regular staff, £14,700 : grants to county associa- tions. £7.400 ; training, etc., £4,500 ; miscellaneous expenses, £5,300." Gross total, £349,000 ; deduct appropriations in aid, £1,000 : net total.""£348,000, an increase of £64.000. Civil aviation calls for an expenditure of £357.000 as fol- lows : Civil aviation aerodromes, £35,000 ; aerial routes, surveys, etc., £37.000 ; technical equipment. £12,000 ; works, buildings and lands. £123,000 ; miscellaneous, £3,000 ; civil aviation subsidies, £159,500. Gross total, £369,500. Deduct appropriations in aid, £12,500. Net total. £357,000, a net increase of £2,000. Meteorological and miscellaneous effective services demand £131,000 under the following subheads: Compensation for losses, £24.000; losses by exchange, etc., £1,000; medals, £100 ; telegraphic and telephonic charges, £57,400 : meteoro- logical services, £77,000 ; miscellaneous, £17,000 ; allowances to ministers of religion, £5,500. Gross total. £182.000. Deduct appropriations in aid, £51,000. Net total. £131,000. No less a sum than £751,000 is required for the Air Ministry, the items under the various subheads being : Salaries and allowances of the Air Council, and Department of the U3
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