COMMITTEE'S REPORT.

Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 104, 4 May 1937, Page 12

COMMITTEE'S REPORT.

ALLOWANCE ENOUGH

SPECIAL PROVISIONS

(British Offlrial Wireless.) (Received May 4, 2.30 p.m.)

RUGBY, May 3,

The report of the Select Committee on the Civil List was issued this evening and the House of Commons agreed tonight to consider it at onco

011 its reassembly after Wliitsun on May 24. The Committee states that the total amount of the Civil List and its distribution was carefully considered last year and, after further inquiry, it sees no reason for recommending any alterations. It is satisfied that the provision then made was adequate but not more than adequate for the proper maintenance of the dignity of the Crown. ; The Civil List of King Edward VIII added provision against the contingency of his marriage, amounting to £410,000. His Majesty has expressed a desire that suitable provision should be made for Princess - Elizabeth, or for a future Duke of Cornwall. In these' circumstances the Committee recommends that an annuity of £10,000, in addition to his existing annuity of £25,000 as the younger son of King George V, should be paid out of the Consolidated Fund to the Duke of Gloucester for life. In the case of -Princess Elizabeth, who is the Heir Presumptive, but is now entitled to the revenue of the Duchy of Cornwall, the Committee recommends that provision be made for an annuity of £6000, to be paid out of the Consolidated Fund, to be increased to £15,000 on her attaining the age of 21, should there then be no Duke of Cornwall.