§ Miss Wilkinsonasked the Minister of Transport whether he is aware that workmen from the Primrose and Monkton districts have to travel to Waller and Wallsend in all weathers on the open ferry at Hebburn and then work all day in wet clothes; and whether, in view of the urgent need there is for quick and proper crossings of the mid-Tyne, he has yet come to any decision on the various reports submitted to him?
§ Mr. BurginI understand the ferry in question to be a non-statutory one and that it was originally established by a shipbuilding firm for the benefit of their workmen. I am awaiting a joint report from the local authorities concerned as to the general problem of the Tyne crossings.