HC Deb 17 May 1900 vol 83 cc419-20
MR. WEIR

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, having regard to the fact that the amount received by the Attorney General last year for salary and fees was £17,264, will he state the amount received in salary and fees last year by the Lord Advocate and Solicitor General for Scotland respectively.

MR. HANBURY

Under Treasury Minute of 22nd August, 1894, the Lord Advocate and the Solicitor General for Scotland receive salaries of £5,000 and £2,000 a year respectively. Those salaries are inclusive, and cover contentious as well as uncontentious business. The Scotch law officers receive no fees.

MR. WEIR

But do not the Civil Service Estimates show that fees were paid as well as salary?

MR. HANBURY

I understand no fees were paid.

MR. SWIFT MACNEILL

Does that make it necessary for these hon. and learned Gentleman to supplement their incomes by directorships?

[No answer was given.]