HC Deb 16 February 1972 vol 831 cc134-6W
Mr. Geoffrey Finsberg

asked the Lord President of the Council if, in view of the number of Members engaged in parliamentary business, on the Committee Room Floor, he will arrange to install extra telephone boxes for Members' use on that floor.

Mr. Whitelaw

There are 14 telephone boxes and three other telephones at present available on the Committee Floor. The existing exchange is already fully loaded and the installation of extra telephone boxes connected to an outside exchange would take at least two months and impose an unjustifiable burden on the Post Office who are already heavily engaged in installing the new automatic telephone system.