§ Captain FAIRFAXasked the Home Secretary whether he is aware of the inconvenience and delay to traffic in the Metropolis caused by slow-moving taxi- 683W cabs plying for hire; and, if so, whether he will take steps to remedy this condition?
§ Colonel ASHLEYI have been asked to reply. As my hon. and gallant Friend is no doubt aware, Section 10 of the London Traffic Act empowers me, after reference to the London Traffic Advisory Committee, to make regulations in respect of,inter alia, cabs and hackney carriages not hired and being in a street elsewhere than on a cab rank. When the Advisory Committee have dealt with other more urgent matters arising under the London Traffic Act, I propose to ask them to advise me on the-matter to which my hon. Friend refers.