MR. CATHCART WASONI beg to ask the President of the Local Government Board if he is aware that the speed limit of ten miles an hour on the Bury Road is habitually disregarded, and that the fines imposed prove no deterrent; and if he will consider the possibility of taking some steps to prevent privileged persons taking the law into their own hands.
§ MR. T. L. CORBETT (Down, N.)Before the right hon. Gentleman answers I would like to ask whether "privileged persons" include Members of Parliament, and whether the fine recently imposed on the hon. Member who asked this Question is a breach of privilege?
§ MR. JOHN BURNSIn the framing of the regulations by the Local Government Board no advantage will be given to privileged persons or to chartered libertines who ride in motor-cars. In Answer to the Question on the Paper, I assume that my hon. friend refers to the speed limit imposed by an Order of the Local Government Board from 1st February last in respect of the Bury Road, Newmarket, from "the Toll Gate 365 to its junction with High Street." I have no information as to any disregard of the speed limit thus imposed, nor have I any power to enforce its observance. If the provisions of the Order are infringed, the attention of the police should be drawn to the matter.