§ Dr. Summerskillasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury whether he is 584W aware that the staff canteen at His Majesty's Inspector of Taxes Office, 11 Inner Park Road, S.W.19, is providing lunches every day for 25 to 30 people on a gas-stove designed to cook for four people; whether his attention has been drawn to the correspondence which has been passing for eight months in efforts to get a more adequate stove installed; and whether, in view of the waste of official time involved by the present arrangements, he will give immediate instructions for the staff's request to be granted?
§ Captain CrookshankI understand that the existing stove is more than adequate to the standard hitherto recognised for what are known as "messing facilities" for staff in offices so circumstanced as is this Tax Office. The general question whether this standard can be improved is, I understand, under consideration; but for the moment my reply to the last part of the Question must be in the negative.