§ SIR THOMAS DEWAR (Tower Hamlets, St. George's)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will state how the accidents with covered vans for the year ending 30th April last compare with the figures for the year prior to the introduction of the London County Council new by-law; and will he state the number of prosecutions during the year for non-compliance with this by-law.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Akers-Douglas.) The figures asked for in the first part of the Question are not available, and would require to be specially collected. I will obtain and forward them to the hon. Member if he 383 attaches importance to them, but perhaps he will not think it necessary to press for them, in view of the figure given in my Answer to his Question o the 1st March † last on the same subject. No proceedings have been taken up to the present by the Metropolitan Police for contraventions of the by-law.