§ MR. ATHERLEY-JONES (Durham, N.W.)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether it is intended to sanction the use of a taximeter for motor or horse-drawn cabs in London which will register the fares in accordance with the existing regulations as to rates; and whether, on account of the difficulty of designing a taximeter which will register the inequalities of the existing cab tariff, he intends to give 642 effect to the recommendation of the Select Committee on Metropolitan Cabs and Omnibuses for the adoption of the taximeter by sanctioning a new scale of cab fares in which the inequalities referred to will be abolished.
§ (Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) The Commissioner of Police has the whole question under his consideration, and I expect to receive a Report from him shortly. I can say nothing further at present.