§ Mr. R. MORRISONasked the Home Secretary whether, in view of the fact that the police had accepted applications for licensing several omnibuses for London and orders had been placed with and deposits paid to the manufacturers for these vehicles, he will consider the advisability of granting a running schedule to these omnibuses for which applications-had been accepted and warning future applicants that there is no guarantee that a route can be given to them'
§ Colonel ASHLEYI have been asked to answer this question. The Commissioner of Police, as the licensing authority, has no power to refuse applications for the licensing of omnibuses, but omnibuses so licensed subsequent to 1st January cannot operate over the streets scheduled to the Order recently made under Section 7 of the London Traffic Act. With regard to the latter part of the question, I am informed that the London Traffic Advisory Committee propose personally to investigate those cases of alleged hardship where persons have placed orders and paid deposits on new omnibuses which they had proposed to run upon streets which have now been declared by Order to be "restricted streets."