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Coll 15/4 'Internal Affairs: financial situation' [‎8v] (16/246)

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The record is made up of 1 file (121 folios). It was created in 6 Oct 1937-18 Oct 1944. It was written in English and French. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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(2) To secure an effective reduction in the cost of public administration,
including such things as transport expenditure, special allowances,
and other supplementary charges.
(3) To suppress at once all superfluous posts and to reduce the scale of pay
allocated to each post, but such reductions not to apply to existing ^
holders of such posts.
9. The same Finance Commission went on to express its satisfaction that
the Egyptian Government were fully alive to the necessity of reducing expenditure
on salaries, which absorbed 45 per cent, of the public revenues.
10. This alarming increase in expenditure was attributed to the high scale
of salary allotted to senior posts and to the automatic increases granted from
year to year. The commission pointed out that the maximum of one grade could
exceed the minimum of the grade above it, with the result that a subordinate
official might be receiving a higher rate of pay than his superior in a higher grade.
This question of State officials had developed into a chronic evil which had engaged
the attention of successive Governments without producing any effective remedy.
Any measures taken in hand had never got beyond their initial stages, either
because the Ministry which initiated them had given place to another, or because
they were surrounded by so many conditions and formalities that they failed to
produce any radical effect.
11. Ismail Sidky Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. 's budget note stated that a solution was not
impossible if the question were handled firmly, and the following suggestions are
made by the present commission :
(1) To draw’ up a new^ scale reducing the gap between the minimum and the
maximum of each grade. Such new scales to be applied only to new
officials or to those promoted from one class to another.
(2) To promulgate a law stabilising the conditions of employment, in order
to guarantee uniformity of treatment in all branches of the State
service.
(3) To facilitate the resignation of officials against suitable compensation.
The question of pensions should also be examined.
12. I he hinance Commission concluded by stating that the most efficacious
solution would be to increase the number of working hours for State officials, and
to fix the salary of each official in proportion to his output of work.
13. The commission drew attention to the growth of the commercial
exchanges between Egypt and the Sudan, which showed an increase of approxi
mately £E. 200,000, as regards both imports and exports, in 1937 as compared with
the preceding year, and it was hoped that this tendency to develop closer com
mercial relations between the two countries would be fostered, particularly by
the interchange of commercial missions which exercise a general beneficial effect,
apart from their purely commercial utility.
14. As regards trade with the United Kingdom the commission drew
attention to the fact that Egypt’s favourable trade balance with that country fell
from £E. 5.015,000 to £E. 4,270.000 in 1937 and that, in spite of a much larger
crop of cotton in 1937, exports of this commodity to the United Kingdom showed
a decline in value in comparison wuth the preceding year. Although this decline
is small the commission expressed the opinion that the cause should be ascertained
and a remedy found, as the development of the growth of long staple cotton in
other countries was a factor which Egypt could not afford to ignore.
15. In alluding to the question of the Aswan hydro-electric scheme, the
commission endorsed Ismail Sidky Pasha’s statement that the Government should
proceed with its realisation but should surround it with all the technical and
financial guarantees required, having regard at the same time to the regulations
governing public adjudications. The commission expressed the hope that, in
addition, no decision would be taken until the question had been submitted to
Parliament.
16. In regard to the question of the Egyptianisation of limited liability
companies working in this country, the commission had no new suggestions to
make. They agreed with the views of Ismail Sidky Pasha An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders. as to the necessity of
revising the rules governing Egyptian limited liability companies and of adoptio
ns a general policy the decision to grant no new^ concessions or to renew old one^s

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The file comprises telegrams, despatches, correspondence, memoranda, and a booklet relating to the financial situation of the Egyptian Government and the process of fiscal reform.

Included in the file is:

  • a copy (ff 20-90) of the booklet 'Projet de reforme du regime fiscal' published by the Egyptian Government, Ministry of Finance, Fiscal Commission
  • a letter (ff 104-110) from the Financial Secretary of the Sudan Government on the impact of a reduction in subsidy by the Egyptian Government

The file features the following principal correspondents: HM Ambassador to Egypt and the Sudan (Sir Miles Wedderburn Lampson); the Under-Secretary of State for Dominion Affairs; the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (Viscount Halifax); and the Financial Secretary, Sudan Government.

The file includes a divider which gives a list of correspondence references contained in the file by year. This is placed at the back of the correspondence.

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1 file (121 folios)
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The papers are arranged in rough chronological order from the rear to the front of the file.

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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 123; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence between ff 20-97.

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