Mr. CATHCART WASONasked how many applications have been received from local authorities during the last three months for speed limits within their areas; how many have been granted; and how many refused, and on what grounds?
§ Mr. BURNSFifteen such applications have been received. In all these cases correspondence is proceeding.
Mr. CATHCART WASONasked the President of the Local Government Board if his attention has been called by any local authorities to the presence of persons stationed at intervals on certain roads in order to hamper local authorities in their efforts to enforce the legal limit of 20 miles on public roads; and what reply he has made to such representations if they have been made?
§ Mr. BURNSI do not find that local authorities have made representations to me on this subject. Indeed, it does not so much concern these authorities as the police, and I may draw my hon. Friend's attention to the answer given by the Home Secretary on the 18th August to a question by the hon. Member for Finsbury on the subject. He then intimated that, with a view to preventing the police being hampered in the discharge of their duties, it might become necessary for Parliament to intervene in the matter.