MR, SCHWANN (Manchester, N.)To ask the Postmaster General, whether he will state the amount of money expended each year since and including 1897 upon concessions given to operating telegraphists during that period; and whether he will also state the value of concessions given to the public at the cost of the Telegraph Department during the same period.
(Answered by Mr. Austen Chamberlain.) It would not be possible to furnish such a statement except at a cost which, 548 having regard to the result produced, I should not be justified in incurring.