Reply Paid Envelopes

HC Deb 04 May 1989 vol 152 cc207-8W

Mr. Madden

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer which Departments issue reply paid envelopes to those required to supply information by law to the Executive; and what changes in policy there have been since 1979 in the issuing of reply-paid envelopes.

Mr. Brooke

[holding answer 2 May 1989]: There is no central policy. It is for individual Departments to decide whether it is appropriate for the cost of replies to official correspondence to fall on the sender or the general taxpayer. Information on current departmental practice is not held centrally.