Dr. DAVIESasked the Prime Minister whether, seeing that the annual sum of £1,200 for grants of pensions on the Civil List for those persons who, inter alia, by their useful discoveries in science and attainments in literature and the arts have merited the gracious consideration of their Sovereign and the gratitude of their country, was passed by Parliament in 1834, he will, in view of the change in the value of money since that date, introduce legislation to increase the amount of the sum so allocated?
§ The PRIME MINISTERI would refer my hon. Friend to the answer given by the Chancellor of the Exchequer on 25th July, 1927, in reply to a question by my hon. Friend the Member for Devizes (Mr. Hurd), of which I am sending him a copy.