*MR. BRYN EGBERTS (Carnarvonshire, Eifion)I beg to ask the Under Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs will he explain why advance copies of printed Papers issued by the Foreign Office are not presented to the Morning Leader in the same way as they are given to other daily papers; how many newspapers that support the South African policy of the Government receive these Papers, and how many papers that oppose that policy are similarly privileged, and whether the printed Papers are supplied by the Foreign Office at the public expense; and how many sets of Papers are so distributed, and among what papers.
§ *MR. BRODRICKOnly a limited list of newspapers receive advance copies of printed Papers issued by the Foreign Office, and the number of newspapers gratuitously supplied could not be increased without opening the door widely. Twenty-one press agencies and newspapers are supplied by the Foreign Office at the public expense — namely, Central News, Central Press, Daily Chronicle, Daily Graphic, Daily Mail, Daily News, Daily Telegraph, Echo, Exchange Telegraph Company, Globe, London and China Telegraph, Money Market Review, Morning Advertiser, Morning Post, National Press Agency, Observer, Pall Mall Gazette, Press Association, Standard, Times, Reuter's Telegram Company. There is no information at the Foreign Office as to the views of those agencies and journals upon the South African policy of Her Majesty's Government.
*MR. BRYN ROBERTSIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that all these papers support the South African policy of the Government?
§ [No answer was returned.]