§ Mr. A. V. ALEXANDERasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he will take such steps to make available to Members of this House copies of all Regulations, Statutory Rules and Orders, etc., which are laid upon the Table, as will avoid the serious inconvenience arising from the present arrangements?
Lieut.-Colonel GUINNESSThis class of publication is not in the Parliamentary category, and there is no automatic distribution to Members. Such distribution of this large mass of publications would be very wasteful. The Regulations laid, however, are available in the Library of this House, and in special cases where occasion justifies—for example, Pensions Regulations—a consignment is sent to the Vote Office for the use of Members. In other cases the Regulations, etc., are on sale, the price in the majority of cases being a penny.