§ MR. C. B. HARMSWORTH (Worcestershire, Droitwich)To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he is in a position to state when it is proposed to give effect to the unanimous recommendation of the Cabs and Omnibuses (Metropolis) Committee that the privilege system for cabs at metropolitan railway stations should be provisionally abolished for one year.
(Answered by Mr. Secretary Gladstone.) As the hon. Member is probably aware, I approached the railway companies, but they saw great difficulties in the way of carrying out my proposals. I am still in communication with them, and I still have hopes of obtaining the desired result by friendly arrangement. Owing to the number and different characteristics of the different stations affected the question is far from simple, but I am pressing forward my negotiations, and I have not relaxed in any way my declared intention of dealing with the matter.