HC Deb 08 May 1919 vol 115 cc1103-4
70. Sir H. NIELD

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he will introduce Amendments into the Finance Bill to entitle the directors of joint stock companies as of right to a reasonable and sufficient increase in fees to cover the additional labour of longer hours and greatly increased duties experienced by them during the War, and to redeem the grievance at present experienced of employés not infrequently obtaining remuneration on a considerably higher scale than that permitted to directors discharging duties of equal, and not infrequently of vastly greater, importance; and if he will make such ameliorative provision retrospective?

Mr. CHAMBERLAIN

I am not prepared to introduce legislation suggested by the hon. Baronet.