HC Deb 13 February 1963 vol 671 c1275

The VICE-CHAMBERLAIN OF THE HOUSEHOLD reported the Answer of the Counsellors of State to the Address, as follows:

We Counsellors of State, to whom have been delegated certain Royal Functions as specified in Letters Patent under the Great Seal of the Realm dated January the 22nd, 1963, have received your Address to Her Majesty praying that Her Majesty will give directions for the presentation on behalf of your House of a bookcase containing parliamentary and constitutional reference books, together with a gavel, to the House of Representatives of Cyprus, and assuring Her Majesty that you will make good the expenses attending the same.

It gives us the greatest pleasure to learn that your House desires to make such a presentation and on Her Majesty's behalf we will gladly give directions for carrying your proposal into effect.

Elizabeth R.

Margaret.