Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Wireless and Television – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 17 December 1958.
Is the right hon. Gentleman aware that he is now giving a different impression to that in the Director-General's reply to me? If he will look at the matter again he will see that the Director-General agrees that there were two points on which, in his own words, "inaccuracy crept in." One of the main statements of Government policy was—[HON. MEMBERS: "Speech."]—"undoubtedly inexact," and on another point
there also seems to have been an error.
The Director-General justifies this on the ground that these programmes have to be simplified. Would the Postmaster-General make inquiries into the organisation of these programmes, in order to see that in future they are sometimes simplified in favour of the Opposition and not of the Government?