HC Deb 06 April 1949 vol 463 c2033
20. Mr. Wilson Harris

asked the Postmaster-General what business is transacted at post offices apart from postal, telegraph, telephone and savings bank services.

Mr. Wilfred Paling

Apart from the services named by the hon. Member, other business transacted at Post Offices includes: (1) Issue and payment of money orders and postal orders, (2) Payment of pension and allowance orders and of postal drafts issued by Government Departments, (3) Sale of insurance, entertainments duty, and certain fiscal stamps, (4) Issue of broadcast, television, motor vehicle, local taxation and private brewer licences, (5) Issue of standard petrol ration books, (6) Issue of tobacco duty relief token books and application forms, (7) Acceptance of documents for stamping for transmission to the Inland Revenue, (8) Issue of forms and leaflets relative to these and other Government services, (9) Maintenance of lists of doctors and chemists participating in the National Health scheme.

Mr. Wilson Harris

I am obliged to the right hon. Gentleman for that answer, but would he not agree, in view of the length of that list of extras, that his salary ought to be raised?

Mr. W. R. Williams

Will my right hon. Friend recommend the Post Office Guide to the hon. Member from which he can get all the information he wants?