§ Mr. Arthur Lewisasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, before granting his authority to the BBC to increase the cost of television licences, he will insist that it should not in the future, as in the past, incur expenditure such as spending £40 on taxis from London to the North of England to obtain spiders when such spiders can be obtained in London, without wasting the licence money as is now admitted by the BBC.
§ Mr. Merlyn ReesNo.