§ MR. SOARES (Devonshire, Barnstaple)To ask the President of the Local Government Board whether he can yet state the terms of reference to the Royal Commission on Motor-Cars, and the names of the Commissioners.
(Answered by Mr. Gerald Balfour.) The Royal Commission will be appointed to inquire and report as to—(1) The working of the Motor-Car Acts, 1896 and 1903, and of the regulations under them; (2) The law and practice in relation to motor-cars in the principal foreign countries; (3) What Amendments, if any, should be made in the Motor-Car Acts, and the regulations under them; (4) The injury to the roads alleged to be caused by motor-cars; and (5) Whether any and, if so, what additional charges should be imposed in respect of motor-cars, and how any money thus raised should be applied; with power to issue an ad interim Report on the first three heads, if that course should appear desirable. The King has been pleased to approve of the following as Commissioners:—Viscount Selby, Chairman; the Marquess of Winchester (Chairman of the County Council for Hants); Sir William Bower Forwood (late Lord Mayor of Liverpool and Chairman of the Lancashire Quarter Sessions); Mr. H. C. Monro, C.B. (one of the Assistant Secretaries of the Local Government Board); Mr. E. R. Henry, C.B. (Chief Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police); and Mr. W. J. Mure, C.B. (formerly Legal Secretary to the Lord-Advocate). It is proposed to add to these a seventh Commissioner, whose name I hope shortly to be able to announce.