HC Deb 23 November 1954 vol 533 cc1047-8
33. Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport

asked the Minister of Housing and Local Government whether he is aware that, under the present control of advertisement Regulations, advertisements consisting of red fluorescent tubing inside a hotel have been held to fall within the scope of the Regulations; and whether, in view of the desirability of allowing reasonable freedom in this connection, he will consider introducing amending Regulations at an early date.

Mr. Sandys

Provided that they are not visible from outside, there are no restrictions of any kind on signs displayed inside buildings.

Lieut.-Colonel Bromley-Davenport

Does my right hon. Friend not think that it is a good thing that hotels and restaurants should be allowed to illuminate themselves as much as they wish in order to add brilliance to their surroundings, and is that not all the more appropriate now that we have passed o through the smog of Socialist gloom and incompetence and reached all the golden glory of Conservative achievement and the broad and sunny uplands that lie beyond?

Mr. Sandys

I have no wish to keep anybody's light under a bushel.