§ Mr. Pounderasked the Postmaster-General if he will give an undertaking that the new postal codes will be included in the next, and subsequent, issues of the Northern Ireland telephone directory.
§ Mr. StonehouseI have commissioned independent studies into the layout and readability of telephone directories, and specifically into the possibility of including postcodes without significant increase in the size of the books or risk of confusion with telephone numbers. It is likely to be six months before I am able to announce my conclusions.