§ Mr. Leslie Huckfieldasked the Minister of Transport what estimates her Department has made of the effects of the setting up of passenger transport authorities oil the finances of local authorities; and whether she will make a statement.
§ Mrs. CastleThe effects will largely be determined by the financial policies of each transport authority in conducting its activities and on the extent to which it exercises the power, which I am proposing it should be given, of precepting on its constituent local authorities to meet any deficits that may result from those policies.
§ Mr. Leslie Huckfieldasked the Minister of Transport what provision she 303W will make in her proposals for passenger transport authorities for flat-fare cross-subsidisation systems of charging; and whether she will make a statement.
§ Mrs. CastleNone. I am proposing that matters of this kind will be for each authority to decide for itself.