§ Mr. ORMSBY-GOREasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether the Representative Body established by the Established Church (Wales) Bill would receive from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners from English sources a capital sum sufficient to pay for the repurchase of glebe lands now in possession of the Church in order to fulfil the requirements of Sub-section (4), Section 1, Clause 8 of the Bill; and how much of the property to be transferred from the Ecclesiastical Commissioners to the representative body would be transferred as a perpetual annuity and how much as a capital sum?
§ Mr. McKENNAFrom the communications made to me by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it would appear that the Representative Body will have sufficient money for the repurchase of the part of the glebe lands referred to by the hon. Member. With regard to the second part of the question, I understand that the Grants for curates, amounting to £14,770, the parochial income secured simply by a general charge upon the whole of the property of the Commissioners, amounting to £23,228, and possibly the excess of the statutory charges on the Common Fund to provide the stipends of the bishops and cathedral corporations over the income derived at present from the Welsh estates of 774 the Commissioners amounting to £3,060, will be paid to the Representative Body in the form of a perpetual annuity. The remainder will be handed over as a capital sum.