§ This is a convenient opportunity for me to refer to increases which my right hon. Friend the Postmaster-General is proposing in the charges for certain Post Office services, namely, trunk telephone calls and inland telegrams, which he will explain during the Debate. The Government have reviewed the matter of man-power as it affects the Post Office and consider it is desirable that a further contribution should be made by that Department. These increases in charges, therefore, are proposed, not in the interests of the Revenue, on which the effect is small, but 963 to economise man-power by discouraging unnecessary use of the services in question. Full details will be found in the Financial Statement. In speaking of the Postmaster-General, may I refer for one moment to him in his old and honoured position as the late Financial Secretary to the Treasury? He will be greatly missed by the Treasury and not least by the Chancellor of the Exchequer. My right hon. and gallant Friend was Financial Secretary for three and a half years, and he took part in six Budgets, and I think I can say, with the assent of the whole Committee, he was an able, conscientious, accessible and resourceful Financial Secretary.