§ Mr. MARTINasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department what payments were made by his Department during the financial years 1905–6, 1906–7, 1907–8, 1908–9, 1909–10, 1910–11, 1911–12, and the expired portion of 1912–13, to Members of Parliament being barristers, giving the name and amount in each case?
§ Mr. McKENNAExcluding the salaries of the Secretary of State and the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, the only payments to Members of Parliament being barristers during the years mentioned were as follows:—
1906–1907.—A fee of £94 10s. was paid to the right hon. Sir David Brynmor Jones, K.C., M.P., as counsel to the Home Office at the inquest on the persons who lost their lives by the inundation of water at the Caradog Vale Colliery, South Wales
1911–1912.—A fee of £367 17s. 6d. to Mr. W. Llewelyn Williams, K.C., M.P., as counsel to the Home Office at the inquiry made under Section 79 of the Factory and Workshop Act, 1901, into the draft regulations for the manufacture of patent fuel in South Wales.