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Our report may be briefly summarised as follows:-
We recommend:-
that Departments should be authorised to make preparations for the celebration of Her Majesty's Coronation on the basis of the provisional estimates contained in the Annex to this report, which represent celebrations on broadly the same scale as in 1937 and which seem likely to result in total gross expenditure in 1953 of the order of £1 millions (paragraphs 2-3);
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that no special allowances should be issued by the Assistance Board on the lines of those issued in 1937 (paragraph 12);
that the Minister of Work's plans for the disposal of seats in stands to be erected by the Ministry, which should have the effect of reducing the net cost of the celebration by at least £300,000, should be approved (paragraphs 14-16);
We invite the Cabinet to decide:-
whether additional expenditure of the order of £205,000 should be incurred on the provision of blue No. 1 dress for all Army troops taking part in the Coronation parade or whether the issue should be confined to Army troops in the procession at an estimated cost of £75,000 (paragraphs 4-7);
whether Naval, Army and Royal Air Force Reviews should be held at an additional cost provisionally estimated at some £250,000 (paragraphs 8-11);
whether the estimate of £150,000 for decoration, floodlighting and fireworks should be reduced (paragraph 13).
Commonwealth Relations Office, S.W.1.
JUNE 17, 1952.
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