§ 29. Mr. GROVESasked the Minister of Transport whether his Department has any statistics relating to the value and durability of various classes of road surfacing, showing the degree of utility of wood block, asphalt, stone sets, or concrete, respectively?
§ Mr. PYBUSI would refer the hon. Member to the answer I gave to a similar question which he asked on 20th April.
§ Sir ARTHUR MICHAEL SAMUELHas not my hon. Friend gathered sufficient experience of various road surfaces during the last six months in experiments near the underground station at Piccadilly Circus?
§ Mr. GROVESAs the Department have been spending hundreds of thousands of pounds on roads, surely they have made up their minds as to which is the better road surface, stone sets or wood-paving?
§ Mr. PYBUSI explained in the answer to which I referred that the matter is a complicated one and depends on various conditions, including the traffic conditions. You cannot give a plain "Yes" or "No" in answer.
§ Mr. GROVESIs the hon. Member aware that in his previous reply to me he gave no particulars whatever, and only said that he could not do it?
§ Lieut. - Colonel ACLAND - TROYTEMay I ask whether this does not show that the Ministry of Transport is quite useless; and ought it not to be done away with?