§ Mr. DUCKWORTHasked the Minister of Transport whether his promised Road Transport Bill provides for the necessity of motor vehicles licensed to carry passengers being fitted with first-aid outfits; and, if not, whether he will consider the desirability of making it compulsory for such outfits to be installed in all such vehicles in the interests of public safety?
§ Colonel ASHLEYThe draft Road Traffic Bill which I circulated last year would empower me to prescribe the conditions with which the equipment of motor omnibuses and motor coaches would have to comply, but I doubt1786W whether it would be considered reasonable to make the carrying of first-aid outfits by all public service vehicles compulsory.