§ 15. Mr. Gordon Campbellasked the Postmaster-General whether all the general knowledge questions, put to the public in the course of tracing telephone faults and in other General Post Office Services, have now been discontinued.
§ Mr. StonehouseAt no time have general knowledge questions been put to the public in the course of tracing faults on telephone lines. As I told the hon. Gentleman on the 21st November, the survey which contained a few general knowledge questions has been discontinued.—[Vol. 773, c. 1516.]
§ Mr. CampbellGood. Why was it ever started?
§ Mr. StonehouseFor the reasons that I explained on that occasion.