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That there be charged on the Consolidated Fund as from the demise of His
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late Majesty the following annual sums (subject to adjustment in respect of parts of a year):—
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For the King's Civil List:
£410,000, subject, as respects the periods specified in the first column of the Table appended to this Resolution, to the reductions specified in relation to those periods respectively in the second column of that Table;
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For retired allowances:
Such sums as may be requited for the payment of retired allowances granted, on a scale and in accordance with conditions approved from time to time by the Treasury, by his late Majesty or His present Majesty to or in respect of persons who have been members of the Household of His late Majesty or His present Majesty;
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For Civil List pensions:
Such sums as may be required for the payment in each year of Civil List pensions already granted or hereafter to be granted;
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For His Royal Highness the Duke of York:
£25,000, so, however, that in respect of any period during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in His Majesty or any period during which the Duke of Cornwall for the time being is a minor, no payment shall be made unless the net revenues of the Duchy for the year fall short, as respects the first period, of £25,000, and as respects the second period, of £50,000, and in the event of such a deficiency the rate of the payment shall not exceed an amount per annum equal to the deficiency;
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For the benefit of Her Royal Highness the Duchess of York and the children of Their Royal Highnesses the Duke and Duchess of York:
£25.000, to be payable only in the event of His Royal Highness the Duke of York predeceasing His Majesty and only in respect of any period during which one of the children of Their Royal Highnesses is the Heir Presumptive to the Throne.
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In the event of His Majesty's marriage:
For Her Majesty the Queen in the event of her surviving His Majesty:
£70,000;
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For the benefit of the sons of His Majesty, other than the Duke of Cornwall for the time being:
£10,000 in respect of each son who attains the age of 21 years, and a further sum of £15,000 in respect of each son who marries;
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For the benefit of the daughters of His Majesty:
£6,000 in respect of each daughter who attains the age of 21 years or marries;
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and that provision be made for continuing for a period of six months after the close of the present reign certain payments charged as aforesaid upon the Consolidated Fund which would otherwise be then determined.
§ The sum payable under this Resolution for the King's Civil List in respect of the period before the beginning of the present financial year shall be in addition to the sum issued in that period for the King's Civil List under the Civil List Act. 1910, for expenditure on works; and the sums payable under this Resolution for His Royal Highness the Duke of York shall be in addition to any sums payable to him under Section five of the said Act.
| TABLE. | |
| Periods in respect of which reductions are to be made in the King's Civil List. | Rate of reductions per annum. |
| Any period during which His Majesty is unmarried. | £40,000. |
| Any period in the life-time of His Royal Highness the Duke of York during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in His Majesty. | An amount equal to the net revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall for the year, less £25,000. |
| Any other period during which the Duchy of Cornwall is vested in His Majesty. | An amount equal to the net revenues of the Duchy of Cornwall for the year." |
§ Motion made, and Question put, "That this House doth agree with the Committee in the said Resolution."
§ The House proceeded to a Division.
§ Mr. BUCHANAN (seated and covered)On a point of Order. When the Question was being put, no one at this end of the House could hear, owing to the noise, whether it was the Resolution on the Civil List which you were putting. As soon as I found out, I rose, because I thought it would be for the convenience of the House to know what Question you were proposing we should divide upon.
§ Mr. SPEAKERIt is the Civil List.
§ Mr. BUCHANANFurther to that point of Order, and for the convenience of the House, may I say that I do not know where you collected the Voices for the "Noes." In this part of the House we got all the votes that we wanted yesterday and we had no intention of putting the House to the inconvenience to-night of a further Division.
Question agreed to.
§ Resolutions reported: