Social Service.

Public Education... cus
Expenditure under the Public
 Health Acts :—
(1) hospitals and treatment
 of diseases.
(2) maternity and child
welfare work.
Old Age Pensions (noncontributory
 ).
Housing of the Working
Classes.
Poor Law Relief (including
lunacy and mental deficiency).


MAJORITY REPORT.

Parliamentary
 votes
and grants.

Local rates.

&
16,100,000
2,300,000
725,000
27,000,000
8,100,000
4,000,000

x
34,100,000

4,900,000

735.000

rR

1,000,000
38,000,000

88,225,000

78,735,000

Other
receipts.

Total.

oo
6,400,000

x
86,600,000

600,000

7,800,000

340,000

1,800,000
27,000,000

7,400,000
4,000,000

16,500,000

46,000,000

18,740,000 | 185,700,000

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143. Insurance against liability under the Workmen's Compensation
 Act may also be properly included in this brief review.
The annual expenditure under this head appears to be about
£12,000,000, the whole of which falls directly upon the
employers, but the greater part of it indirectly upon the
community.
144. Thus, in total, the nation, in a time of great industrial
depression, is meeting an annual charge for social services of
about £308 millions, which is provided as to £112 millions from
taxation, as to £79 millions from rates, and as to £98 millions by
some form or other of insurance payment.

EVIDENCE AS To THE BURDEN ON INDUSTRY.
145. We have heard evidence from the National Confederation
of Employers’ Organisations on this aspect of the problem
(Q. 24,543-24 548), and we direct attention also to the statement
which they have submitted to us (App. CVII). That Confederation
 claims to speak authoritatively on behalf of the employers
of the country, as it is a central body representative of the various
great federations whose constituent members have in the aggregate
 an employment roll of about seven million workers. The
witnesses informed us that the Confederation is recognised by the
Government as the mouthpiece of the employers on all matters
affecting the latter’s industrial relations to their workpeople ; and
that it nominates each year, on the invitation of Your Majesty ’s
Government, the delegate and technical advisers to represent
British employers at the International Labour Conference at
Geneva held under Part XIII of the Treaty of Peace. |
146. From this organisation, as will be seen from the evidence,
we have received the strongest representations that industry