§ 86 and 87. Mr. MILLSasked the Minister of Transport (1) what reports he has received from the traffic commissioners of the homo counties areas of the wages and hours of drivers and conductors of passenger coaches operating through Kent;
(2) if his attention has been called to the rates of wages paid to passenger-coach drivers and conductors in the Nottingham traffic commissioners' area; and what action has been taken in the cases where a wage of 15s. weekly was being paid to conductors?
§ Mr. HERBERT MORRISONI have no jurisdiction in the matter of the wages paid to, or the conditions of employment of, the drivers and conductors of public service vehicles. Section 93 of the Road Traffic Act, 1930, provides that representations on such matters may be made to the traffic commissioners by any organisation representative of the persons engaged in the road transport industry and that if the matter in dispute is not otherwise disposed of it shall be referred by the Minister of Labour to the industrial court for settlement.