The Committee in its second report recommended the closing of
the Ministry of Transport, the Department of Overseas Trade and the Mines Department, whose duties should be per- formed once again by the Board of Trade and the Home Office. The Petroleum Department should be discontinued. The Board of Trade should postpone the Census of Production and make other economies, amounting in all to £538,000 a year, while export credits should be reduced by £E00,000. On agriculture and forestry the Committee would save £855,000, by restricting land settlement and education, and by abandoning the State afforestation policy. The Committee would reduce the numbers of the police, and cut down their pay outside London, and, with certain economies in prisons, would thus save £1,595,000. On miscellaneous services the Committee would save £102,000.
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