HC Deb 12 April 1961 vol 638 c229
22. Mr. Gresham Cooke

asked the Postmaster-General whether, in the next issue of "Telephone in Business", he will recommend to telephone users that the size of type of telephone numbers on notepaper should be the same as that of the address so that it may be easily read.

Miss Pike

We are grateful to my hon. Friend for this suggestion. We agree that telephone numbers on notepaper should be easily readable and we will see that this is stressed in the next issue of the "Telephone in Business."

Mr. Gresham Cooke

I thank my hon. Friend for her reply, but would she also emphasise the fact that the telephone number on the note paper of many firms is in microscopic print and cannot be read, and that, as telephone numbers are used just as often as addresses, they should be in the same size of print?

Miss Pike

I assure my hon. Friend of that, and I hope that the fact that he has raised the matter now will help to improve the position.

Mr. G. Brown

In view of the hon. Lady's agreement with the hon. Gentleman on that score, would she also advise her Ministerial colleagues that it would be a good thing if they put their telephone numbers on their note paper at all?