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Defence Expenditure(1)
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Table 1
Financial year
1949-50
1950-51
1951-52
£ million
Three-year programme 1951-52 to 1953-54
1. Fay and allowances of Forces (including Reserves, Territorials and Auxiliary Forces)
198
210
270
850
2. Production, research and development, and works, of which(2):
274
* 345
700
2,800
industries
engineering
(a) Metal and metal-using
(b) Textiles and clothing
(c) Building and civil
3. Other expenditure
170
360
1,650
11
55
170
82
145
475
...
272
275
330
1,050
Total
744
830
...
1,300
4,700
(1) The figures include expenditure on civil defence. They also include, under item 2, the estimated cost of building stores for the strategic stockpile, but exclude the rest of the strategic stockpiling programme.
(2) Part of this expenditure cannot be separated by industries.
Table 2
Manpower in Great Britain, 1948-52
Mid-1948 | End-1949 | End-1950
Thousands
Forecast
End-1951 End-1952
Total Working Population
H.M. Forces
On Release Leave
Total Industrial Population
of whom:
:::
:
22,904
23,000
846
92
725 11
23,225 752
23,350 850
23,450
900
21,966
22,264
22,473
22,500
22,550
Men Women
14,913
15,116
15,191
15,125
15,100
...
7,053
7,148
7,282
7,375
7,450
Registered Unemployed
282
360
328
300
250
Total in Civil Employment
21,684 21,904
22,145
22,200
22,300
Table 3
Coal Supplies
TO FOLLOW
Steel Output and Materials Consumed
Table 4
Thousand Tons
1947
1948
1949
1950
1951 Forecast
Pig-iron production:
Total
7,785
9,276
9,499
9,633
10,000
For steel-making
5,827
7,011
7,039
7,290
8,000
Scrap for steel-making:
Total consumption
7,695
9,045
9,776 10,251
9,350
Steel production (ingots and
castings)
12,724
14,877
15,553
16,293
16,000-
16,250
Imports (crude, semis and
finished)
410
404
884
454
Exports of finished steel(1)
1,279
1,448
1,735
2,350
Deliveries of finished steel to
12,350
Penggemartof 587.
8,256
9,674
10,471
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(1) Supplies of finished steel are less than production of crude steel because of losses in processing.
(2) Includes the equivalent of 100,000 ingot tons obtained by drawing on producers' stocks.
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