§ MR. GOOCH (Bath)To ask the Secretary to the Treasury what rules govern the free distribution of official publications to libraries; and whether he will make arrangements by which the British Institute of Social Service may receive such publications as it needs for its library, which is open to the public with out fee.
(Answered by Mr. Runciman.) Parliamentary publications within a limit of £250 per annum are supplied gratuitously to public free libraries which are rate-supported, on application for specific publications. I understand that the British Institute of Social Service is not on this footing. I should perhaps add that such surplus Record Office publications issued prior to 1896 as are still in stock arc available for presentation to free libraries and other public institutions.