"ملف 19/176 VI موارد البحرين المالية" [و‎‎٣‎٢] (٢٥٣/٦٣)

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shown on the "Hevenue" side as proceeds of sales of food-stuffs
to the general public. The same figure appears on the
"ifixpenditure" side for the purchase of food supplies. Jhus
it would seem that the Bahrain Government do not intend to
meet the additional expenditure necessitated by the employment
of additional staff to supervise the purchase and distribution
of food supplies by a slight increase in the sale price of
those supplies. In fact they have budgeted for it under
"Customs and Food Control".
This amounts to a subsidy by the Government to the people
and for purposes of assessing exactly how much assistance the
Government is giving to the people it would be better to have
the Food Control expenditure shown as a separate item to the
Customs expenditure.
1. Administration .
(a) Passport Department . The Passport Department is being run
at a loss. This is probably due to the fact that owing to the
restrictions on foreign travel the sale and renewal of Bahrain
Government passports has greatly decreased. At the same time,
the work of x.he Passport Department has increased owing to the
additional services now being run by the British Overseas
Airways Corporation.
( b ) Transport . Bo.26,00© has been budgeted for "Transport 11
(Item (g) of paragraph 2 of the Budget). This sum is used
to keep up a Government garage which mends and services
Bahrain Government transport and municipal transport. The
heading "Transport" is misleading and it should be "Government
Garage" and be budgeted for it under the heading P .W.D. The
municipalities should pay for services carried out by the
Government garage and this income should be shown in the
accounts as revenue^ and if necessary they should have their
grants increased to meet this additional expenditure.
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