MR. FIELD (, St. Patrick) DublinI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether the Government receives 10 per cent. commission from the National Telephone Company, or from any other private Telephone Company; and whether it is on account of this arrangement that Government refuses to take over and make the telephone a public service?
§ MR. HANBURYThe present licencees pay, as all future licencees will pay, a royalty of 10 per cent. The answer to the second paragraph of the honourable Member's Question in the negative.