§ MR. CHARLES BILL (Staffordshire, Leek)I beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury, as representing the Postmaster General, whether, for the future, Members of this House may be 399 allowed the privilege of sending Blue Books and other official publications from the Vote Office by post free of charge to libraries and other public institutions?
MR. HANURYAt present the only Parliamentary papers entitled to the privilege of transmission free of postage are Bills and Votes which are posted in the proper official bag at the Vote Office; and the Postmaster General regrets that he does not feel justified in recommending that the privilege should be accorded to other classes of Parliamentary papers such as those referred to by the hon. Member. The hon. Member is not perhaps aware that Official Publications are already supplied to Free Libraries applying for them from Her Majesty's Stationery Office.