§ MR. BRUNNER (Cheshire, Northwich)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether his attention has been called to an error in the Report presented to this House from the Joint Committee on Electric Powers (Protective Clauses); whether he is aware that the error did not occur in the Report from that Committee presented to the House of Lords; and whether it is the custom to set up in type Reports from Joint Committees separately for the two Houses? I may explain that the error was the omission of the word "substantially."
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTI have referred to the two issues of the Report and Proceedings in question for the House of Lords and House of Commons respectively. It appears clear that they have been separately set up, and I am informed that it is the practice to set up the Reports and Proceedings of such Joint Committees separately for both Houses. I will make inquiries, with a view to discovering how the difference between the two issues of the Report arose, and obviating any such mistakes in future, and also, in the interests of economy, with a view to preventing documents being needlessly set up twice.
§ MR. BRUNNERWill my right hon. Friend endeavour to secure that there shall only be one printing in the future? Can it not be done by a friendly arrangement?
§ SIR J. T. HIBBERTThe moment I heard of it I made up my mind to try and arrange that in the interests of economy.