§ Resolution reported,
§ That, for the purposes of any Act of the present Session to prescribe new rates of salary for Ministers of the Crown and to establish a contributory pensions scheme for Members of the House of Commons, it is expedient to authorise the payment out of the Consolidated Fund and out of moneys provided by Parliament respectively of any sums authorised or required to be so paid by or by virtue of provisions of the said Act—
- (a) increasing or otherwise regulating the salaries payable as from 1st April, 1965, to Ministers of the Crown, to the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Commons and to Mr. Speaker;
- (b) providing for the payment of salary as from that date to the Leader of the Opposition in the House of Lords and the Chief Opposition Whip in both Houses of Parliament;
- (c) increasing, in the case of a Prime Minister who ceases to hold office after that date, the amount of the pension payable under the Ministers of the Crown Act, 1937, and providing for a pension for the widow and dependants of any such Prime Minister;
- (d) enabling the Pensions (Increase) Acts to be extended to the pensions of Prime Ministers who ceased to hold office before that date; and
- (e) providing for the payment into a Fund to be constituted for the purposes of a scheme of contributory pensions for Members of the House of Commons taking effect as from 16th October, 1964, of Exchequer contributions equal to the contributions made to that Fund out of the salaries of Members, and of further Exchequer contributions not exceeding (subject to variation by order of the Treasury) £132,000 a year for a period of 25 years.
§ Resolution agreed to.