§ Major Sir E. FIENNESasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware that, although taxi-cab proprietors are not using more than their authorised allowance of petrol, they are prohibited by the three-mile limit from driving officers and men of both services from the towns to camps, forts, and stations where they are quartered which are beyond the prescribed distance, and in many cases to which trains are not available, thereby causing inconvenience and loss of time when they are returning from leave or joining for the first time, and hardship to those officers and men whose only relaxation is obtained by an occasional visit to the town; and, if so, whether an exception can be made in the case of all service men?
§ Mr. WARDLEI have been asked by my right hon. Friend to answer this question. I am aware that some, hardship has been caused in a few areas, particularly in the neighbourhood of military camps owing to the limitation of the radius of operation of taxi-cabs, and I am now causing inquiry to be made into the circumstances in each licensing area with a view to an extension of the three-mile limit where necessary in the interests of the travelling public.