HC Deb 23 June 1952 vol 502 cc1821-2
2. Mr. Driberg

asked the Minister of Transport what directions he has issued to the Railway Executive concerning the purchase of six-monthly season tickets after 30th April.

The Minister of Transport (Mr. Alan Lennox-Boyd)

None, Sir. I understand that during the present "standstill" period three-monthly season tickets will be charged at the three-monthly rate or at one quarter of the annual rate, whichever is the less, in the case of those persons who, prior to 1st May, held season tickets for a period exceeding three months. Suitable adjustments will be made where such season tickets have already been issued on any different basis of charge.

Mr. Driberg

Would the right hon. Gentleman be good enough to say whether he has looked into a particular case which I submitted to him, and whether he has considered the apparently unnecessary inconvenience to which a constituent of mine was subjected?

Mr. Lennox-Boyd

I have looked very carefully at the letter addressed to me by the hon. Gentleman. I think it would be very unreasonable to have expected the British Transport Commission, during the standstill period, to issue season tickets for a very long period. I think they were plainly entitled to do what they did do and my answer, I think, would meet any case of general hardship.