§ Major COLVILLEasked the Postmaster-General, if, with regard to the communications he has received from the National Union of Manufacturers protesting against the prominence given on the 915W front cover of the Post Office Guide for July to an advertisement for Russian oil, he is prepared to take action to ensure that British rather than foreign goods receive prominence in the advertisements appearing in the official publications of his department?
§ Mr. LEES-SMITHIt is the practice of the Post Office to try to arrange as far as possible for British rather than foreign goods to receive prominence in the advertisements appearing in its official publications, but I do not feel justified in refusing an advertisement of a foreign product, offered in the usual way through the official advertising agents, to appear in a space which might otherwise have to be left blank or used unremuneratively.