asked the Postmaster-General, in view of the 100,000 calls made for meal recipes by telephone since the service was started at Birmingham last July, if he proposes to extend this facility to serve housewives in other parts of the country.

My right hon. Friend is glad that this service is proving popular. There are technical difficulties about its early extension to other centres, but we are looking into these in the light of the Birmingham experiment, and I will write to my hon. Friend as soon as possible.