HC Deb 28 July 1953 vol 518 c1074
18. Mr. Shepherd

asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether his regulations still provide that organisations receiving Treasury grants must pay Her Majesty's Stationery Office 12½ per cent. on all printing, even when this is placed direct with outside firms.

Mr. R. A. Butler

The Stationery Office are required to recover from grant-aided bodies the full cost of services provided: the addition of 12½ per cent. to prime cost is calculated to recover Departmental expenses. No payment is due to the Stationery Office for printing executed under arrangements not made by that Department.

Mr. Shepherd

Will my right hon. Friend see that this information is imparted to grant-aided bodies, since several directives issued in the past have given the impression that orders placed with outside firms are still subject to 12½ per cent. service fees?

Mr. Butler

I am doing my best to follow this up.