HC Deb 16 February 1883 vol 276 cc166-7
LORD CLAUD HAMILTON

asked the Postmaster General, If he will lay upon the Table Copies of the respective tenders received from the City of Dublin Mail Packet Company and the London and North "Western Railway Company for the Contract for the conveyance of the Royal Mails between London and Dublin; also of all Correspondence between the Post Office and those Companies, and the Treasury and those Companies; also between the Post Office and the Treasury, in regard to the said Contract; and, a copy of the Contract finally concluded with the London and North Western Railway Company?

MR. COURTNEY

The Standing Orders of the House require that the final Contract should be laid upon the Table, together with an explanatory Treasury Minute. This will be done as soon as the Contract is completed; and I will add to these Papers others, which will, I think, put the House in possession of all the facts of the case. Should anything then appear to be wanting, the noble Lord will, perhaps, raise the question again, and I will see what can be added.

LORD CLAUD HAMILTON

Will the House have ample time to consider the question before the Contract is signed?

MR. COURTNEY

The House will, no doubt, have time.