§ Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 69.
§ [Captain BOURNE in the Chair.]
§
Resolved,
That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to regulate the salaries payable in respect of certain Administrative Offices of State; to provide for the payment of additional salaries to members of the Cabinet holding offices at salaries less than five thousand pounds a year, of a salary to any person being Prime Minister, of pensions to persons who have been Prime Minister, and of a salary to any person being Leader of the Opposition; to simplify the law as to the capacity of persons holding offices of profit to sit and vote in Parliament; and for purposes connected with the matters aforesaid, it is expedient to authorise:
(a) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament to the holders of the offices named in the first column of the following table of annual salaries of the amounts respectively specified in the second column of that table:
| Offices. | Amount of Annual Salary. | |
| £ | ||
| Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury | 10,000 | |
| Chancellor of the Exchequer, eight Secretaries of State, First Lord of the Admiralty, President of the Board of Trade, Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, President of the Board of Education, Minister of Health, Minister of Labour, Minister of Transport, Minister for the Co-ordination of Defence | each | 5,000 |
| Lord President of the Council, Lord Privy Seal, Postmaster-General, First Commissioner of Works | each | 3,000 |
| Minister of Pensions | 2,000 | |
| Parliamentary Secretary to the Treasury | 3,000 | |
| Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Secretary for Mines, Secretary of the Department of Overseas Trade | each | 2,000 |
| Two Parliamentary Under Secretaries to the Foreign Office in the aggregate | 3,000 | |
| Two Parliamentary Under Secretaries to the Admiralty in the aggregate | 3,000 | |
| Two Parliamentary Under Secretaries to the War Office in the aggregate | 3,000 |
| Offices. | Amount of Annual Salary. | |
| One Parliamentary Under Secretary to each of the following Departments, that is to say: the Air Ministry, the Board of Education, the Board of Trade, the Burma Office, the Colonial Office, the Dominions Office, the Home Office, the India Office, the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Labour, the Ministry of Transport, and the Scottish Office. | each | 1,500 |
| Assistant Postmaster-General | 1,200 | |
| Five Junior Lords of the Treasury | each | 1,000 |
§ (b) the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of such sums as may be necessary to increase to £5,000 the annual salary of any Minister of the Crown in receipt of a salary of less amount, if and so long as he is a member of the Cabinet;
§ (c) the payment out of the Consolidated Fund of a pension of £2,000 a year to any person who has been Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury and of an annual salary of £2,000 to the Leader of the Opposition."—(King's Recommendation signified.)—[Lieut.-Colonel Colville.]
§ Resolution to be reported To-morrow.