§ SIR GEORGE CAMPBELL (Kirkcaldy)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury if he will state what is the total income of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales and his family from public sources, including the Duchy of Cornwall, Parliamentary Grants, offices in the service of the country, or any other public source?
§ * MR. W. H. SMITHThe hon. Member will find the information he wants in the Appendix to the Report of the Committee on Royal Grants. Full particulars of His Royal Highness's income from public sources are there given, with the exception of the pay which the Prince draws as Colonel of the 10th Hussars.
§ SIR G. CAMPBELLMay I ask whether the sons of the Prince of Wales do not receive certain sums for their connection with the Services of the Army and Navy; whether His Royal Highness does not occupy Marlborough House rent free; and whether there is not other property that comes from a public source—namely, the savings of the Duchy of Cornwall during the minority of the Prince?
§ * MR. W. H. SMITHThe hon. Gentleman has full opportunity of answering those questions for himself. The total amount received by the Prince's two sons amounts to £400 a year between them.
§ SIR G. CAMPBELLI beg to give notice that I will move to modify the Amendment of the hon. Member for Northampton (Mr. Labouchere) by substituting the name of Her Majesty for that of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales, on the ground that the House, while acknowledging the readiness of Her Majesty to promise that no further demands shall be made for the younger branches of the Royal Family, is of opinion that the present means at the disposal of His Royal Highness are adequate.
MR. A. L. BEOWN (Hawick, &c.)I beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Report and Appendices of the Committee on Royal Grants contain the whole of the information presented to the Committee as to the savings of Her Majesty; and whether the House is to understand that the sum total of Her Majesty's savings is at present a little over £800,000?
§ * MR. W. H. SMITHThe Report of the Committee on Royal Grants contains the documentary information presented to the Committee; but in the course of its discussion Members of the Government who were Members of the Committee gave confidential information that was within their own knowledge. The House is to understand that the amount stated in the Papers is the amount of savings paid over to the Privy Purse; but whether the total of Her Majesty's savings are more or loss than that amount I decline to state.