§ Mr. WATTasked the Secretary for Scotland whether, before instituting any commission to consider means of reducing the number of accidents in the large cities of Scotland, he proposes to wait for requests for such commission from the town councils of such cities; whether he is aware that the tramcars of such corporations are permitted to run up to sixteen miles per hour, as, e.g., in Glasgow; that this regulation precludes the corporations from insisting on the ten mile limit of motor cars; and that these facts cause unnecessary risk to the public; and whether he will introduce legislation limiting speeds of vehicles in towns in Scotland?
Mr. McKINNON WOODAs my hon. Friend was informed on the 29th April, I am not satisfied as to the need of special inquiries into the matters to which he refers, though I am, of course, prepared to consider requests from town councils or other quarters. I must not, however, be taken as assenting to the implications conveyed in the question.