Social Service. 
Public Education... cus 
Expenditure under the Pub- 
lic Health Acts :— 
(1) hospitals and treat- 
ment of diseases. 
(2) maternity and child 
welfare work. 
Old Age Pensions (non- 
contributory ). 
Housing of the Working 
Classes. 
Poor Law Relief (including 
lunacy and mental defi- 
ciency). 
MAJORITY REPORT. 
Parliamen- 
tary 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 
Ht 
143. Insurance against liability under the Workmen's Com- 
pensation 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 Confedera- 
tion 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 aggre- 
gate 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