§ Mr. MARKHAMasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is aware that Members find great difficulty in securing certain Stationery Office publications; and whether he will take steps 722W Complete figures for 1936 are not, of course, yet available.
to see that all Government publications published by that office shall be freely available to Members?
§ Lieut.-Colonel COLVILLEThe publications of the Stationery Office are extremely numerous and varied. Many of them have little or no bearing on the 723W course of Parliamentary business. I regret, therefore, that I cannot undertake to adopt the hon. Member's suggestion. Parliamentary Papers of the current Session are, of course, freely available to Members at the Vote Office; and they are entitled on application to the Controller of the Stationery Office to Non-Parliamentary publications of the current Session which are reasonably required for the discharge of their Parliamentary duties. I am not aware that Members have any difficulty in obtaining publications within these limits, which were adopted in 1924 and have, so far as I am aware, worked satisfactorily in practice.