HC Deb 15 May 1900 vol 83 c239
MR. COGHILL (Stoke-upon-Trent)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether he can explain why Sir Richard Webster as Attorney General received a fee of £2,585 for his services in the Venezuelan Arbitration in addition to his official salary of £7,000.

THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HANBURY,) Preston

Under the terms of the Treasury minute of 1895 the Law Officers of the Crown receive fixed salaries for all non-contentious business. For contentious business they are entitled to fees on the ordinary professional scale. The Venezuelan Arbitration was contentious business.

MR. COGHILL

Will the same treatment be extended to officers of the Army and Navy?

[No answer was given.]