HC Deb 19 March 1946 vol 420 cc1690-1
68. Mr. W. Shepherd

asked the Finan cial Secretary to the Treasury the cost per 1,000 in 1939 of perforating Road Fund licences.

The Financial Secretary to the Treasury (Mr. Glenvil Hall)

Fourpence farthing.

Mr. Shepherd

In view of the very small amount represented by the cost of the operation and, therefore, the very small amount of labour involved, will the hon. Gentleman say that he will give instructions that the perforation of these licences shall be resumed forthwith?

Mr. Glenvil Hall

The cost of labour, of course, would now be higher. It would be about 5½ d. The principal reason is that it would involve the expenditure of a good many manhours. There are every year about 8,000,000 of these licences and it is perfectly easy, as I said before, at any rate for some years to come, for people to clip round the edges