§ Mr. AMMONasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware of the practice in official papers of including Post Office expenditure with the expenditure of non-revenue Civil Services, frequently without any reference to the fact that the Post Office is a revenue Department with a revenue greater than its expenditure; and whether, to avoid misleading the public as to the cost of the Post Office, he will take steps to secure that, whenever Post Office expenditure is given, a reference will also be made to Post Office revenue?
Mr. GUINNESSI am not sure what official papers the hon. Member has in mind, but where particulars of expenditure are needed, naturally Post Office expenditure is shown as such. I do not think anyone is thereby led to forget that the Post Office is a revenue producing Department.