To ask the Lord President of the Council what saving he estimates would be made to public funds if written and oral questions were not reprinted in the Vote bundle after appearing for the first time.

It is estimated that savings to public funds of between £1 million and £2 million could arise. It is not possible to be more precise, since a radical change of this nature would require a fundamental review of how the relatively fixed costs of HMSO's parliamentary press are recovered in the pricing of various documents produced for the House.