§ MR. BYLESI beg to ask the Prime Minister what is the total amount of the funds remaining in the hands of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation; for what specific purposes were these funds subscribed; and are they so administered that the actual persons for whom each separate fund was raised are in receipt of the same; or are other persons not entitled, and not contemplated by the donors, receiving pensions taken from the aforesaid funds.
§ THE PRIME MINISTER AND FIRST LORD OF THE TREASURY (Sir H. CAMPBELL-BANNERMAN, Stirling Burghs)I am informed that my hon. friend will find in Paragraph 9 of the Second Report of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation to the King the separate and total amounts of the funds remaining in the hands of the Corporation on 31st December, 1905; and in Appendix 11. of same Report the origin and objects of the various funds. He will also find in Paragraphs 7 and 8 of the First, and Paragraph 14 of the Second, Report of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation to the King the general principles and conditions of administration adopted by the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation in regard to the various funds now under their management under the powers conferred upon the Corporation by Patriotic Fund Reorganisation Act, 1903. I am further informed that the Third Annual Report of the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation for the year 1906 will shortly be issued and available to the hon. Member as a Parliamentary Paper.
§ MR. BYLESIs my right hon. friend aware that the Royal Patriotic Fund Corporation has been begging of the Treasury for funds for widows, when they have stored up very large sums of money which were given for these very widows, who are now dying off long before they get their money?