Mr. DAVID ADAMSasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that the North-East Development Board have recently urged upon the controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office the desirability of establishing a branch office in the North-east, in view of the size of the area and its remoteness from existing Government stationery offices; and whether, as, amongst other advantages of such a branch in this area, it would offer increased facilities to firms in the North-east desirous of undertaking Government printing contracts, particularly in the matter of inspecting samples of work required, he will give favourable consideration to this proposal?
§ Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLEI would refer the hon. Member to my answer to2640W the hon. Member for Sunderland (Mr.Storey) on 16th December and to my reply of to-day to the hon. Member for Jarrow (Miss Wilkinson). I am sending to him a copy of the correspondence referred to in these answers.