HC Deb 20 February 1940 vol 357 cc1148-9
59. Commander King-Hall

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what steps have been taken during the past 12 months to draw the attention of public libraries throughout the Kingdom to the fact that they may obtain copies of the OFFICIAL REPORT at half-price?

Captain Crookshank

Four hundred and sixty-five public libraries in the United Kingdom receive the Stationery Office monthly catalogue, and 36 the Daily List of publications, both of which include the Official Report. The Library Association also prints in its monthly magazine a summary of publications issued by the Stationery Office of special interest to libraries, and in February, 1939, this included a reference to the Volume of the Official Report containing the Debates on the September, 1938, crisis. The fact that all prices are subject to the Government subsidy to libraries is mentioned regularly at the head of this summary.

Rear-Admiral Beamish

Would it not greatly tend to increase interest in this publication if the more persistent and perceptive, popular and picturesque Members could have their portraits in it?