HC Deb 14 July 1902 vol 111 cc116-7
CAPTAIN NORTON

I beg to ask the President to the Board of Trade whether, seeing that the Cheap Trains Act, 1883, gives him power to inquire only into the question whether the proportion which the existing accommodation for passengers, at fares not exceeding the rate of one penny a mile, bears to the total existing accommodation for all classes of passengers is a sufficient proportion, he will consider the advisability of introducing a short amending Bill to give power to the Board to make inquiry into the question of the sufficiency of the total accommodation for each class of passengers.

MR. GERALD BALFOUR

I see no sufficient reason for legislation in the direction indicated by this Question.