§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the Secretary to the Treasury whether, in view of the number of letters received by Members in connection with the public business of Parliament, arrangements could be made to enable Members to send replies to such letters free through the Post Office.
§ THE FINANCIAL SECRETARY TO THE TREASURY (Mr. AUSTEN CHAMBERLAIN, Worcestershire, E.)The privilege of free postage which Members of Parliament had previously enjoyed was expressly abolished by Parliament in 1840 (Act 3 and 4 Vic. cap. 96),† and the Postmaster General is not prepared to recommend that it should be revived.