16. Captain CROOKSHANKasked the Minister of Transport the results of his conference with the Home Office regarding the parking regulation which prohibits the locking of the doors of motor cars when parked?
§ The MINISTER of TRANSPORT (Colonel Ashley)I still have this matter under consideration in consultation with my right hon. Friend the Home Secretary.
Captain CROOKSHANKDoes not the right hon. Gentleman think that three months is quite long enough to consider such a point, particularly as, when he made his first announcement on the subject, he was sitting next to the Home Secretary and is doing it again now?
§ Colonel ASHLEYI hope that that is to our mutual benefit. I have held up a decision for this reason. I have in the last two or three days made revised draft regulations in connection with parking stations, with the object of increasing their number very substantally in the traffic area. A proviso is put in those regulations that cars must be left so that they can be moved by hand. The object of that is that representations can be made to me in the next 35 days objecting to that proviso, so that I should be informed more exactly what the objections are and be in a position to come to a decision.
§ Mr. SPEAKERNone of these supplementary questions arise out this question.
§ Mr. CRAWFURDOn a point of Order, may I ask if a supplementary question which has not yet been put can be ruled out as not arising out of the question?
§ Mr. SPEAKERIt is for me to say when there have been enough supplementary questions.