§ MR. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN (Worcestershire, E.)To ask the First Lord of the Treasury whether the Walker Trustees, as holders of the office of the Heritable Usher of Scotland, are entitled to charge fees, and, if so, to what amount, on the creation of knights of the United Kingdom, or to levy such fees from any other recipients of honours conferred by His Majesty; what services the Walker Trustees render in respect of such fees; and to what purposes the fees are devoted.
(Answered by Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman.) The Treasury have been advised that the right of the Walker Trustees, as representing the Heritable Usher of Scotland, to charge fees on the creation of honours is confined to the cases of knighthoods bachelor, conferred upon Scotsmen, 326 and knighthoods bachelor conferred upon Englishmen in Scotland. I understand that the fee payable in these cases is £3 6s 8d So far as the Treasury is aware no services are rendered by the Heritable Usher. The fees received are presumably devoted to the purposes of the Walker Trust.