Excerpt from The National Expenditure of the United Kingdom There is always room for economy. There is always need for criticism of public departments, for the simple reason that in a public department there is no responsible per-son who has any pecuniary interest in keeping expenditure down, or even in making sure that the public gets value for the money received and spent. True, the auditor-general is a check upon actual illegalities and misappropriations; and the Treasury. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.