§ 28. Mr. Anthony Greenwoodasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury what saving will be made in the current financial year as a result of the decision to stop publication of "Report to Women."
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe estimated saving in the current financial year is £821, assuming 11 issues for the year.
§ Mr. GreenwoodWould not the hon. Gentleman agree that this organ of opinion was serving a most useful purpose and that the economy effected is quite petty in its nature? Does not he think it is quite wrong to suppress organs of this kind when he remembers the way in which he and his colleagues complained that the last Government did not keep the public fully informed on matters of this kind?
§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThat supplementary question forms a very good example of the ease with which a particular economy can be criticised on the basis of its triviality; but the House will recall that it is on the sum of those savings alone that substantial economies can be achieved in this field.