HC Deb 06 February 1957 vol 564 c414
6. Mr. Ross

asked the Postmaster-General how often the Post Office Advisory Council met in 1956.

Mr. K. Thompson

Twice.

Mr. Ross

Was it not the practice of the present Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, when Postmaster-General, of only having meetings of this Council coincident with impending or already decided increases in the tariff?

Mr. Thompson

Yes, Sir, but I think there is no significance in any such coincidence of meetings. It is the intention of my right hon. Friend to convene an early meeting of the Advisory Council to discuss various matters.

Mr. W. R. Williams

Will the hon. Gentleman ask the Postmaster-General to give sympathetic consideration to a suggestion which I have made to a number of his predecessors that ways and means should be found of using on that Advisory Council the wide knowledge and experience of the Post Office staffs?

Mr. Thompson

I will draw my right hon. Friend's special attention again to what the hon. Gentleman says.