§ 36. Viscount CURZONasked the Home Secretary whether applications for the 748 licensing of side-car taxicabs will now be considered for the Metropolitan Police area?
§ Mr. SHORTTThe answer is in the negative. I am informed by the Ministry of Transport that the Departmental Committee on the Taxation and Regulation of Road Vehicles, to which this question was referred, has come to the conclusion that it is not desirable that licences to ply for hire with these vehicles in the London area should be issued at the present time.
§ Viscount CURZONIs the right hon. Gentleman aware that some of these vehicles are plying in provincial towns and are very popular and extremely comfortable?
§ Mr. SHORTTI know that there are three in Birmingham, three in Nottingham, and, I think, two in Brighton and another South Coast place, and I am told that they are not very popular.