§ 32. Sir H. CRAIKasked the Home Secretary whether the salary of the chairman of the Welsh Church Commission is limited in accordance with the purport of Section 20 of the Superannuation Act of 1834, which provides that in the case of a retired Civil servant appointed to a public office no more of his superannuation allowance shall be paid than what, with the salary of his new appointment, shall be equal to that of his former office, or whether the chairman is to draw his whole superannuation allowance of £1,333 in addition to the salary of £1,500; whether this total expenditure of £2,833 is being incurred already before the Act has come into operation; and whether, in view of the special necessity at present of economy of public funds, he will consider the advisability of saving a large part of it in accordance with the provisions of the Superannuation Act?
§ Sir J. SIMONI would refer the hon. Member to the answer given him on 11th February by the Financial Secretary to the Treasury.
§ Sir H. CRAIKDo I understand that the provisions of Section 20 of the Act of 1834 do not apply to this case, because although the gentleman in question holds a statutory office paid by public money he is not in a public Department?
§ Sir J. SIMONI believe that the hon. Gentleman was given a full explanation in the answer to which I have referred him. One point certainly is that the salary in question is not paid out of public funds.
§ Sir H. CRAIKCould the right hon. Gentleman say out of what funds it is paid?
§ Sir J. SIMONIt is not paid out of the public funds within the meaning of the Superannuation Act.
§ Sir H. CRAIKIt is paid out of the Welsh Church Fund.