MINISTERIAL SALARIES

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 150, 22 December 1922, Page 18

MINISTERIAL SALARIES

LORD CHANCELLOR OVERPAID,

Tho Bonai' Law Government, being pledged to the strictest economy, may think fit to cut down the Lord Chancellor's salary, as suggested by Mr. Asquith in his evidence before the Select Committee on Remuneration of Ministers, says a correspondent in the "Manchester Guardian." Dealing, with the disparity of salarie% Mr. Asquith said that " lor some strange reason " the ■Lord Chancellor got twi<\. as much as any other Minister. Ho thought it impossible, to justify such a disparity, nnd could not "see,any reason for it under modem conditions." Nor couid Mr. Asquith sue any reason for paying the Law Officers salaries. " much in excess of those of. ordinary Cabinet Ministers." The I'rimo Minister, in Mr. Asquith's opinion, is underpaid, but not so the Chancellor of the Exchequer. Ho informed tlio Committee that "(.lie Chancellor of the Exchoquer is not a heavily worked official, as I know very well, having been Chancellor of tho Exchequer mysolt', and having erch a great many Chancellors at work.- At compared with any of the Secretaryships of State, it is a very lightly worked office. It is » very important and responsible one, but the departmental duties of the Treasury. as far as the Chancellor of the Exchequer is concerned, in nonn.il times arc not comparable with those of the head of pno gl th§ j3qcr,etarv3hiDs of Stated