HC Deb 23 March 1937 vol 321 cc2759-60

"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 peron 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," presented by the Prime Minister; supported by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Sir John Simon, the Attorney-General, the Lord Advocate, and the Solicitor-General; to be read a Second time To-morrow, and to be printed. [Bill 107.]