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SECRET
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Friday 30th May, 1941

A. 581

MINISTRY OF INFORMATION EXPENDITURE ( excluding Postal and Telegraph Censorship )

1. As agreed at the Board meeting on 23rd May, the following statement is circulated for information.

2. The Ministry's expenditure is mounting rapidly. The rate of increase is indicated by the following comparative figures for two six-month periods:-

	April to Sept. 1940	Nov. 1940 to April 1941	Increase
	£'000	£'000	£'000
Total	738	1,470	732
Press publicity	186	402	216
Salaries	222	264	42
Telegrams	144	246	102
Films	130	222	92
Publicity printing and books	36	87	51

3. The total rate of expenditure is now approaching £4,000,000 a year. The following schedules, based on recent records of expenditure, indicate approximately the amounts which are being spent for home and for overseas purposes respectively, viz:-

For Home	£1,692,000
For Overseas	£2,006,000
Total	£3,698,000

4. It should be clearly understood (a) that the items include certain apportionments between home and overseas (e.g. of salaries and common service expenditure of Production Divisions) and (b) that the amounts shown are taken from records of recent quarters and should not be treated as precise estimates of a full year's expenditure. The references (A.1 etc.) show the subheads of the ministry's vote to which the expenditure is charged.

FOR HOME SERVICES

		£’000
A.1.	Headquarter salaries and wages	166
A.2.	Regional salaries and wages	100
B.1.	Headquarters travelling and incidental	13
B.2.	Regional “““	23
B.4.	Home Intelligence	22
B.6.	Casual Hospitality	3
C.1.	Telegrams and telephones	30
D.1a.	Display advertising	600
D.1c.	Feature articles	4
D.1j.	France, Zeitung, etc.	58
D.2.	Posters	130
D.3.	Publications	5
-	Publicity, printing and books	42 *
D.4b.	Documentary and short films	88
D.4e.	Display of films at home	205
D.4g.	Crown Film Unit operational expenses	31
D.4h.	Projection etc. equipment	47
D.6a&b.	Artists fees, materials etc.	10
D.6c.	Exhibitions	62
D.7.	Lectures	4
D.8.	Photographic publicity	17
D.9.	Home Regional expenditure	32
	Total	£1,692

FOR OVERSEAS SERVICES

A.1.	Headquarter salaries and wages	325
A.3.	Overseas salaries and wages	163
B.3.	Overseas travelling and incidental	19
B.6.	Headquarters Casual Hospitality	2
C.1.	Outward telegrams 618
C.2.	Telegrams from posts abroad	31
D.1b.	Translations	9
D.1c.	Feature articles	13
D.1d.	Reuters[illegible]	66
D.1e.	Exchange Telegraph	26
D.1f.	Air mail fees subsidy	4
D.1g.	Export of newspapers	48
D.1h.	Telegraph fees subsidy	51
D.1i.	Agence Francaise Independente	50
	C/Forward	1,425

		£’000
	B/Forward	1,425
D.1j.	France, Zeitung etc. for abroad	4
D.3.	Publications	47
-	Publicity printing and books	150 *
D.4b.	Documentary and short films	9
D.4d.	Newsreels	135
D.4f.	Dubbing and display of films abroad	49
D.5b.	British Official Wireless	30
D.5.	Broadcasting (other than B.B.C.)	34
D.7.	Lectures, tours and missions	4
D.8.	Photographic publicity	53
D.10.	Local expenditure abroad	53
D.11.	Commercial publicity agencies	13
	Total	£2,006

* Charged to Vote for Stationery & printing.

E. St. J. B.

28th May, 1941

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SECRET EXECUTIVE BOARD Friday 30th May, 1941

FOR HOME SERVICES

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SECRET
EXECUTIVE BOARD
Friday 30th May, 1941