HC Deb 05 June 1951 vol 488 cc109-10W
Miss Hornsby-Smith

asked the Lord Privy Seal if he is aware that children are separated from their parents and made to join separate queues to pass through the turnstiles at the Battersea Park Gardens; and whether he will take steps to allow parents to take young children through with them in view of the distress caused by sudden separation of young children from their parents, which in this instance is worsened by the length of the queues, which do not run parallel, but in opposite directions.

Mr. Stokes

As the hon. Member is no doubt aware, the Festival Pleasure Gardens are being run by a Company, Festival Gardens Ltd. I have no right to intervene in the Company's operational arrangements and questions of this kind should be referred to Festival Gardens Ltd.