HC Deb 09 May 1895 vol 33 c895
SIR JOHN HIBBERT

moved:— That a Select Committee be appointed to inquire whether the present system of issuing invitations for tenders, and of making contracts for Government printing and binding, sufficiently secures compliance with the terms and spirit of the Resolution of the House of Commons of the 13th day of February 1891, and whether any, and, if so, what, improvements of the system are called for.

MR. W. P. BYLES

asked the right hon. Member to defer the Motion until a later day, as an hon. Member who wished to make an Amendment was absent from the House.

SIR JOHN HIBBERT

said that the Amendment to which he supposed the hon. Member referred, was unnecessary.

MR. BYLES

said, that the point to which it was desired to draw attention was as to the reporting being included.

SIR JOHN HIBBERT

said that he could not admit the reporting.

MR. BYLES

Then I object.

Order deferred.