§ MR. D. A. THOMAS (Merthyr Tydvil)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade if he can say when Parliament provided a specific salary for the holder of his office for services rendered in the Department; and whether he can lay any Papers showing why effect was never given to the Resolution passed by the House on the Motion of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1826, that His Majesty be enabled to grant a salary of £5,000 to the President of the Board of Trade.
§ THE PRESIDENT OF THE BOARD OF TRADE (Mr. GERALD BALFOUR,) Leeds, CentralThe salary of the President of the Board of Trade is sanctioned by the Act "7 George IV., cap. 32." The post was previously held in conjunction with the office of Treasurer of the Navy, the salary 1110 of which was £3,000 a year. As regards the Motion passed by the House of Commons on the 6th April, 1826, I fear there are no Papers that I could usefully lay, but a reference to "Plansard" shows that the majority (eleven), by which the Motion of the then Chancellor of the Exchequer was carried, was considered too small to justify His Majesty's Government in then proceeding with the proposal that the salary should be £5,000 a year, and £2,000 was accordingly agreed to.