HC Deb 13 August 1889 vol 339 cc1132-3
SIR GEOEGE CAMPBELL (Kirkcaldy)

I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury if he can tell who is responsible for the fact that the Index to the Report of the Deccan Mines Committee of the 6th August, 1888, has been distributed on 9th August, 1889; and, if measures can be taken to check the waste of public money in printing Papers when they are quite out of date?

MR. JACKSON

I have not been able to get sufficiently full and complete information to enable me to answer the question of the hon. Gentleman; but I am bound to admit, at once, that the index to a Report nearly 12 months behind time is altogether unjustifiable. Measures will be taken to obviate the recurrence of a similar inconvenience.