§ Mr. PATRICK WHITETo ask the President of the Board of Trade whether he will suggest to railway companies in Great Britain and Ireland the advisability of extending to legislators, while attending at Westminster, the same facilities for returning to their homes at week ends as they now do to members of commercial travellers' organisations.
(Answered by Mr. Lloyd-George.) The granting of such facilities as those referred to by the hon. Member is a purely voluntary proceeding on the part of a railway company, and the Board of Trade do not think that they could usefully take action in the direction suggested.