HC Deb 21 June 1904 vol 136 c693
MR. HERBERT SAMUEL (Yorkshire, Cleveland)

I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Colonies whether any pensions are now being paid to any persons who have held the office of Crown Agent for the Colonies; if so, what is the amount of those pensions; if not, what was the amount of any such pensions paid in recent years.

THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE COLONIES (Mr. LYTTELTON,) Warwick and Leamington

When Sir P. Julyan, who is still alive, retired in 1879 he was awarded a pension of £1,200 a year. At his request the Agents were authorised to purchase for him a Government annuity of that amount. Sir M. Ommanney, on his transfer from the Crown Agency to be permanent Under-Secretary in the Colonial Office, was allowed to draw £400 a year of the pension to which he will ultimately become entitled in consideration of the fact that the salary of the permanent Under-Secretary was less than his previous emoluments by that amount, and this sum of £400 is the only pension to a Crown Agent which is at present being drawn from their Funds.