§ MR. H. LABOUCHERE (Northampton)I beg to ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether he is aware that the advertisements inviting tenders for supplying with goods the prison at Northampton are inserted in London and Birmingham newspapers but not in the newspapers published at Northampton; would he explain what is the reason for this; and whether he will see that these advertisements are henceforward published in the local journals?
§ THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR THE HOME DEPARTMENT (Sir MATTHEW WHITE RIDLEY,) Lancashire, BlackpoolThe advertisements are not, as the hon. Member's Question suggests, for Northampton prison alone, but for the whole of the prisons of England and Wales; and being lengthy and expensive, are for economy's sake inserted only in trade journals of general circulation, and in the newspapers which have the widest circulation in the various parts of the country. I shall be glad to consider the claim of any Northampton journal to belong to either of these classes of papers.