§ Mr. CLARKEasked the Postmaster-General whether he is aware that the present method of measuring the London telephone area from a centre situated at Oxford Circus has the effect of depriving large industrial shipping centres on both banks of the Thames on the East side of London of cheap telephone communication with the City; and whether he can state by whose authority the present method of measurement was fixed without regard to the historic centre of London and without, reference to the industrial importance of the excluded parts of Greater London?
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§ Sir K. WOODThe present method of measurement was recommended, after careful consideration of possible alternatives by the Departmental Committee on Telephone Rates of 1920 and approved by the Select Committee on Telephone Charges of the same year. I am sending my hon. Friend the relevant extract from the Report of the Select Committee.