§ MR. CROOKSI beg to ask the President of the Board of Trade whether, seeing that the Joint Select Committee on London underground railways which sat in 1901 recommended that the model workmen's train clause drawn up by the London County Council should be inserted in all Private Bills authorising the construction of electric railways in London, he will say if such model clause has been inserted in all such Private Bills from 1901 down to and including the present session.
§ MR. LLOYD-GEORGEThe Committee referred to recommended that clauses based on certain provisions of the Central London Railway Act, 1900, should be inserted in all Bills authorising the construction of underground railways, and such clauses have been included in all the Acts passed since 1901 authorising such lines in London. In the case of the 892 London and North-Western Railway Bill of this session, authorising the construction of new lines to Watford, of which only the first three miles are underground, the Committee on the Bill have not, I believe, thought it necessary to insert provisions in this form, but have added a clause to the effect that workmen's fares on the new lines are not to exceed those now in operation on the existing lines.