HC Deb 21 March 1905 vol 143 cc652-3
MR. WILLIAM RUTHERFORD (Liverpool, West Derby)

I beg to ask the Postmaster-General whether he can and will arrange in the Agreement with the National Telephone Company that until the transfer to the Government the requirements and plant shall be purchased exclusively from British manufacturers so far as British manufacturers are able to supply the same, these requirements being upwards of £250,000 per annum.

THE POSTMASTER-GENERAL (Lord STANLEY,) Lancashire, Westhoughton

It is not open to me now to modify in any respect the Agreement which has been signed subject to the veto of Parliament.