§ SIR GEORGE FARDELL (Padding-ton, S.)I beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he has taken, or will take, any, and if so, what steps to secure compliance by the Central London Railway Company with the recommendations of the Committee appointed by the Board of Trade to inquire into the vibration produced by the working of the traffic on the Central London Railway; and, whether the Board of Trade will endeavour to prevent the passing of any Railway Bills unless they contain provisions adequately protecting frontagers and others from injury by vibration caused by working of electric traction in tube railways.
§ MR. GERALD BALFOURThe Board of Trade have been in communication with the Central London Railway Company with reference to the Report of the Committee on Vibration. When the Company have had an opportunity of further consideing the matter, I shall ask them to inform me how they propose to give effect to its recommendations. The Department will take care that the Committee or Committees to which the Bills are referred shall have their attention directed to the Report which has been made by Lord Rayleigh's Committee.