§ Sir W. Smithersasked the Financial Secretary to the Treasury how many Christmas cards were printed and sold by Her Majesty's Stationery Office last Christmas; and what was the profit or loss.
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§ Mr. Boyd-CarpenterThe Stationery Office has for many years printed and sold Christmas cards to enclose reproductions of works of art in our museums. Last Christmas the Stationery Office printed 90,000 of these cards for the National Maritime Museum and the Victoria and Albert Museum of which 50,000 were sold at a net profit of about £300. In addition, the Stationery Office purchased 32,000 similar cards from the National Gallery and the Tate Gallery and resold them at a profit of about £100.