§ Major PRESCOTTasked the President of the Board of Trade whether he will 796W consider the propriety of taking appropriate action to ensure a uniform system of requisite maximum and even lighting of main thoroughfares to be gradually reduced at junctions of roads to a uniform lesser lighting of connecting roads, and similarly a graduated lighting from connecting roads to residential and small traffic roads, and will he state if any action is proposed to be taken by his Department for co-ordinating and controlling a complete scheme of public lighting within the Metropolitan area in respect of consumption of fuel and price?
§ Mr. BRIDGEMANThe Board of Trade have no power of control over public lighting as regards either the nature and amount of the lighting or the expenditure on it. These are matters which have been entrusted to the responsible local authorities, and as to which the Board cannot appropriately take action.