§ 25. Mr. Parkerasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will give an estimate of the number of persons receiving pensions from the Crown who are thereby disqualified under the present law for membership of the House of Commons; and of the approximate number under the House of Commons Disqualification Bill.
§ Major Lloyd-GeorgeOwing to the obscurity of the existing law I cannot estimate the number of Crown pensioners at present disqualified. If the House of Commons Disqualification Bill were in force the number of persons who would be disqualified through receipt of pensions from the Crown would be about one hundred and sixty.