§ 99. Mr. M. Lindsayasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department whether, in view of the fact that the number of private cars in London now greatly exceeds garage accommodation, he will ask the Metropolitan Police to use their discretion in regard to cars being left without lights in well-lit streets.
§ Sir D. Maxwell FyfeThe Commissioner of Police has given consent to vehicles standing without lights at certain authorised street parking places. As regards the lighting of vehicles standing elsewhere, the police have a duty to enforce the law, and while they carry out this duty with discretion, too great a latitude would be likely to result in increased and indiscriminate parking of unlit vehicles throughout the hours of darkness.