COLONEL LONG (Worcestershire, Eveham)I beg to ask the First Commissioner of Works whether he can arrange with the Commissioner of Police that Members of Parliament living west of Westminster Abbey shall be allowed on the 26th and 27th June to drive by Chelsea Embankment, Grosvenor Road, and Abingdon Street to the public entrance of the House of Commons; those going to the Abbey to walk through the path between St. Margaret's and the Abbey, and those going to the House of Commons stand, on showing their tickets, to pass through Westminster Hall and New Palace Yard to the corner gate and be allowed by the police to cross to the stand opposite up to some named hour; and will he also arrange that the carriages of Members of Parliament should be parked in New Palace Yard.
§ THE FIRST COMMISSIONER OF WORKS (Mr. AKERS DOUGLAS, Kent, St. Augustine's)I shall be happy to do what I can for the convenience of hon. Members, and have entered into communication with the Commissioner of Police on the subject, and have asked him to consider these suggestions in due course.
§ MR. AKERS DOUGLASI do not think that is possible. But it does not rest with me.