§ 60. Viscount SANDONasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury if he will in future dispense with four pages of exact quadruplication in Return No. 9 of this month relative to advances to the Government by the Bank of England?
§ Mr. McNEILLThis Return is presented under Statute. I have no power to dispense with it, and I do not think it would be in the public interest to suppress the publication annually of this correspondence, the cost of which is trifling and which under certain circumstances might be an important safeguard of sound relations between the Bank and the Treasury.
§ Viscount SANDONCould not the later copies of the letter be simply recorded as being the same as the first letter?
§ Mr. McNEILLIf my Noble Friend will tell me privately what he thinks is the advantage, I will consider it.
§ Viscount SANDONIt will save four pages.