58. Mr. Vaneasked the Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation what the advantage is in continuing to meet the expenditure on trunk roads, and to pay appropriate grants to highway authorities through the Road Fund, rather than to make these payments direct and so avoid an extra account.
§ Mr. Lennox-BoydThere are no great advantages or disadvantages in the present form of accounting, and since legislation would be necessary to abolish the Road Fund I cannot, therefore, make any change at the present time.