§ Mr. Maxwell-Hyslopasked the Minister for the Civil Service why it takes so long for Her Majesty's Stationery Office to print and make available the Journal of the House; why the most recent Journal to be available in printed form is that ending on 12th November 1975; and what steps he can take to shorten the delay.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisThe next volume of the Journal of the House to be published will be No. 232 covering the 1975–76 Session. Publication is expected at the end of September. No.656W 233 covering the 1976–77 Session will be publisched in the spring of 1979.
I regret the delay in publishing these volumes which has, I understand, been due primarily to the heavy requirements of parliamentary printing in the recent past.
§ Mr. Maxwell-Hyslopasked the Minister for the Civil Service when Her Majesty's Stationery Office will have available the next volumes of (a) Index to the Statutes, and (b) the "Chronological Table of the Statutes"; and up to what dates, respectively, these two volumes will run.
§ Mr. Charles R. MorrisBoth publications will run to the end of 1976. It is expected that the Chronological Table of the Statutes will be published in June 1978, and it is hoped that the Index to the Statutes will appear early next year. Both publications have encountered production difficulties which, in the case of the index, arise from the application of modern typesetting techniques.