§ 60. Mr. RAMSDENasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury the percentage value of all foreign goods bought for or 582 by the Stationery Office during the last financial year?
§ Mr. R. McNEILLThis information is not, available and could be obtained only at the cost of a great deal of labour. The practice of the Stationery Office is to confine purchases of foreign goods to articles which cannot be obtained of British make, such as foreign books and periodicals and certain office machines and parts. A rough estimate of the value of all foreign goods bought for or by the Stationery Office during the last financial year is from one to one and a half per cent. of the total expenditure.