§ 66. Mr. BOWERMANasked the Minister of Agriculture whether, in granting permission to continental firms to use for trading purposes road maps produced by the Ordnance Survey Department, he will make it a condition that such maps shall. be produced by printing firms in this country?
Mr. GUINNESSAs I stated in reply to the right hon. Gentleman on the 8th instant, I do not see that the imposition of such a condition could be justified so long as the firms concerned comply with the usual conditions governing reproductions from Ordnance, Survey maps.
§ Mr. BOWERMANIs it the intention of the Department to continue to spend large sums of money in the production of road maps, and then to allow continental firms to reproduce and print them and send them to this country to compete with our own people?
Mr. GUINNESSThe right hon. Member is no doubt aware that they make payment in compensation, and I do not think that I should be justified in giving protection by administrative action.