HC Deb 05 April 1965 vol 710 c20
24. Mr. Evelyn King

asked the Secretary of State for Defence what was the cost of printing and publishing Command Paper No. 2592 (Defence Estimates).

Mr. Healey

About £1,100.

Mr. King

Does not the right hon. Gentleman agree that White Papers are normally models both of lucidity and of objectivity? Would he accept, also, that paragraph 1 of Command Paper No. 2592 appears to some Members to be both controversial—

Mr. Speaker

Order. That does not arise out of the cost, which was stated to be so many £s.

Mr. King

I was about to ask whether the cost of that paragraph—

Mr. Speaker

Order. I was already satisfied that we were dealing with an irrelevant supplementary.