HC Deb 18 November 1960 vol 630 cc717-8

[Queen's Recommendation signified]

Considered in Committee under Standing Order No. 84 (Money Committees).

[Sir GORDON TOUCHE in the Chair]

Resolved, That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to replace the existing limits on the numbers of Parliamentary Secretaries in individual Departments by a single aggregate limit; to authorise the payment of a salary to a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Science; and to increase the salary of the Captain of the Gentlemen-at-Arms, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of moneys provided by Parliament of—

  1. (a) any increase in the sums payable out of moneys so provided under any other enactment which is attributable to provisions of the said Act of the present Session—
    1. (i) abolishing the existing limits upon the numbers of Parliamentary Secretaries to whom salaries may be paid in individual Departments of State other than the Treasury and substituting a limit of thirty-three upon the total number in all those Departments;
    2. (ii) increasing to three thousand pounds the annual salary of the Captain of the Honorable Corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms; and
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  2. (b) a salary not exceeding two thousand five hundred pounds a year to a Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Science.—[Sir E. Boyle.]

Resolution to be reported.

Report to be received upon Monday next.