§ MR. JOHN ELLISI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether is can be arranged for a Return of the days and hours during which the House of Lords has been in Session each year, say, for the last 10 years (similar to the Annual Return for this House), to be placed in the Library, with a view of assisting Members in forming a judgment as to the adequacy, or otherwise, of the sums they are asked to vote for the salaries of officials and clerks under Votes 1 and 2, Class 2, of the Civil Service Estimates?
§ THE FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURYThe Return in the case of the House of Commons was not given with the object of estimating the salaries of officials of the House of Commons, nor in my opinion could or ought the question to be decided on that simple arithmetical basis.
§ MR. JOHN ELLISI never suggested it should. But does the right honourable Gentleman deny that the hours a man, whatever his position, works are an element in the consideration?
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