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REPORT

FROM THE

SELECT COMMITTEE

ON

PUBLICATIONS AND DEBATES

REPORTS, 1927,

TOGETHER WITH THE

PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE, MINUTES OF EVIDENCE, APPENDIX AND INDEX.

Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be Printed,

22nd December, 1927.

LONDON:

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1928

Price 18. d. net.

ORDER OF REFERENCE..

[Thursday, 17th February, 1927] Publications and Debates' Reports,-Ordered, That a Select Committee be appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in the arrangements for the Report of Debates, and to inquire into the expenditure on Stationery and Printing for this House and the public services generally.

Committee nominated of,-Sir Rowland Blades, Mr. Bowerman, Mr. Burman, Mr. Gates, Mr. Hall Caine, Mr. Hore-Belisha, Mr. Looker. Mr. Naylor, Colonel Perkins, Mr. Ramsden, and Mr. Frederick Roberts.

Ordered, That the Committee have power to send for persons, papers, and records.

Ordered, That Three be the quorum.-(Colonel Gibbs.)

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The cost of preparing for publication the shorthand Minutes of the Evidence taken before the Select Committee was £10 0s. 5d.

The cost of printing and publishing this Report is estimated by the Stationery Office at £25.

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REPORT.

The Select Committee appointed to assist Mr. Speaker in the arrangements for the Official Report of Debates, and to inquire into the expenditure on Stationery and Printing for this House and the Public Service generally, have agreed to the following Report:

1. Your Committee have considered the matters referred to them, and have particularly directed their attention to a suggestion, contained in a letter from certain Members of the House to the Chairman.* It was therein suggested that there was a real need for an up-to-date index to the unbound copies of Hansard, to be kept in the House itself.

2. Your Committee have given this point very careful and sympathetic consideration. They have listened to the views of the Members who made the suggestion, and they have heard, detailed evidence from the Deputy Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office, and also from the Editor of the Official Report (Hansard ').

3. After reviewing the forms which it was suggested the proposed index might take, and the extent to which it was anticipated it would be consulted; and after giving serious consideration to the estimated additional cost of the various suggestions, over and above that of the already existing index to Hansard; Your Committee do not feel justified in making any recommendation to the House.

* See Appendix.

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Mr. Geoffrey Peto and Mr. Walter Baker, Members of the House, were also present.

A letter from Mr. Geoffrey Peto and Mr. Walter Baker to the Chairman, dated 10th July, 1927, was read. (See Appendix.)

Mr. T. H. Parr, Editor of Hansard, and Lieut.-Colonel N. G. Scorgie, C.B.E., Deputy-Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office, were examined.

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Mr. Geoffrey Peto and Mr. Walter Baker, Members of the House, were also present.

Lieut.-Colonel N. G. Scorgie, C.B.E., Deputy-Controller of His Majesty's Stationery Office, was further examined.

The Committee deliberated.

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