§ Mr. LANSBURYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will state to the House the names of ex-Cabinet Ministers and ex-Lord High Chancellors now in receipt of pensions or allowances from public funds, and the number of years each Minister served as a Minister or Officer of the Crown; the total amount of salary received for such services; the period each of these gentlemen has been receiving a pension or allowance, and the total each has received up to date?
§ Mr. BALDWIN:The information is as follows:
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Names. Period of Service as Minister, etc., etc. Total Salary received Period for which Pension receivable (to 8th March, 1923) Total Pension received to 5th January, 1923 Remarks Ex-Cabinet Ministers. £ s. d. £ s. d. Lord George Hamilton 20 years 8 months 79,625 approx. 0 0 From 24th August. 1892 to 4th July. 1895 and from 10th October, 1903 to date.Total … 22 years 3½ months 44,206 9 3 £2,000 per annum. Viscount Chaplin 8 years 4 months §16,667 approx. 0 0 From 26th November, 1900 … Total … 22 years 3½ months 24,927 2 1 £1,200 per annum. £300 per annum deducted while serving as Member of the House of Commons, 1911–1916. Ex-Lord Chancellors. Earl Loreburn 11th December, 1905, to 10th June, 1912. 6 years 6 months. *‡65,019 14 2 From 11th June, 1912. 10 years 9 months †46,369 4 6 Half pension only (i.e., £2,500 per annum) drawn from 4th December, 1918, to 5th July, 1921, inclusive Viscount Haldane of Cloan Lord Chancellor, 11th June, 1912, to 26th May, 1915. 2 years 11½ months. *29,587 18 2 From 27th May, 1915. 7 years 9½ months. †38,049 9 0 Secretary of State for War 1905 to 1912. 6 years 6 months, approx. 32,500 approx. 0 0 Lord Buckmaster 27th May, 1915, to 10th December, 1916. 1 year 6½ months. *‡15,392 7 8 From 11th December, 1916. 6 years 3 months. †30,353 5 3 Earl of Birkunhead 14th Janunary, 1919, to 24th October, 1922. 3 years 9½ months. *‡37,794 1 8 From 25th October, 1922. 4½ months. ‡991 16 11 * £6,000 per annum as President of Chancery Division of High Court, plus £4,000 per annum as Speaker of House of Lords. † £5,000 per annum. ‡ Does not include remuneration as Law Officer. § In addition to salary for eight months as Chancellor, of the Duchy of Lancaster.
§ Mr. LANSBURYasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer if he will consider the advisability of asking Parliament to amend Section 6 of the Superannuation Act, 1834, in such a manner as will secure that all applicants for ex-Cabinet Ministers' pensions shall make statutory declaration of the amount of their own income, their wife's income, and the incomes of any members of their family living at home, and also to provide for a similar statement being supplied to the Treasury at least once a year?
§ Mr. BALDWIN:Applicants are already required, in accordance with the terms of the Act referred to, to make a declaration as to their private means before a pension is granted, and no amendment of the existing Statute would be required in order to provide for a declaration in the form suggested in the hon. Member's question. I should add that the grant of a pension is in all cases subject to an undertaking to surrender it in the event of any material improvement of circumstances.