§ 74. Mr. Robert Cookeasked the Chancellor of the Exchequer what increase in expenditure on communications services has taken place in the Department of the Paymaster-General in the six months since October, 1964, as compared with the same period a year previously.
§ Mr. DiamondI assume that the hon. Member has in mind the expenditure of the Office of the Paymaster-General on telephones and postage. The Post Office accounts for these services cannot be related precisely to the periods quoted170W by the hon. Member but actual payments made during the period October, 1964, to March, 1965, were some £700 less than during the same period a year previously.