§ MR. LEAI beg to ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether his attention has been drawn to page 52 of the Finance Accounts of the United Kingdom for the year ended 31st March, 1907, wherein it is stated that Elizabeth Brooksbank and Eliza Clutterbuck are drawing pensions of £300 and £28 per annum respectively under 1 and 2 Vic, c. 95, on the ground that these pensions were formerly on the Civil List of George IV.; and, considering the latter died in 1830, will he give the present ages of these two pensioners, and state what was the office each formerly held, its duties, and their length of service to the deceased monarch.
§ SIR H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMANBoth ladies were daughters of civil servants and were granted pensions for life in respect of their father's services. According to particulars published by the Select Committee which inquired into these pensions in 1838, Miss Brooks-bank should now be eighty-six, and Miss Clutterbuck, who died a few months ago, had reached the age of ninety-one. It is the invariable practice of such annuitants to live long.