§ 1. Lieut.-Colonel HEADLAMasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, whether, in view of the importance of the findings of the Royal Commission on the Coal Industry (1925) being within the reach of the whole mining community, he will consider the advisability of issuing without delay a cheap edition of the Commission's Report.
§ The FINANCIAL SECRETARY to the TREASURY (Mr. Ronald McNeill)The Government is in complete sympathy with the object of my hon. Friend, as stated in his Question; and, in view of the large sales of this Report which have already been effected, we have felt able to arrange that, on and after to-day, the Report shall be on sale at the price of 3d. This will naturally involve an increased financial loss, and it will be understood that the reduction in price, which is a departure from the general policy adopted in the pricing of Government publications, is justified solely by the exceptional circumstances of the case.