HC Deb 23 March 1886 vol 303 c1636
MR. ARTHUR ACLAND (York, W.R., Rotherham)

asked the Secretary to the Treasury, Whether, in consideration of the difficulties experienced by many persons in various parts of the Kingdom in trying to obtain Government publications, arrangements can be made to provide at all the chief Post Offices the quarterly lists of Parliamentary Papers for consultation, together with printed forms (addressed to the Office for the sale of Parliamentary Papers) on which prepaid orders for Reports or other Papers may be made out?

THE SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. HENRY H. FOWLER) (Wolverhampton, E.)

The Postmaster General is not prepared to recommend that postmasters should be supplied at the public expense with the quarterly lists of Parliamentary Papers published. If, however, the Queen's Printers will furnish them to the principal head post offices, and will provide forms for ordering copies of Parliamentary Papers, the Postmaster General will instruct postmasters to afford facilities for examination of the lists. Payment for such Papers as might be ordered from the publishers would have to be made by the ordinary methods.