HC Deb 23 May 1940 vol 361 c321W
Sir R. Gower

asked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether, to save paper and expedite business, he will instruct the staff of Government Departments not to send memorandums to colleagues when they are in the same part of the building, but to convey the information personally?

Captain Crookshank

My hon. Friend's suggestion goes, I fear, too far and is not administratively practicable. I am, however, in full sympathy with his desire to restrict to the minimum departmental minutes and memoranda, and instructions have already been issued to Departments with that object in view.