§ 48. Sir T. Beamishasked the Secretary of State for the Home Department why there were seven traffic wardens in a one hundred yards stretch of Charlotte Street at 1.30 p.m. on Wednesday, 17th July; how many traffic wardens there are in London; what is their average weekly take-home wage; and whether he will reduce the number of wardens by 50 per cent., and provide them all with bicycles.
§ Miss PikeIn Charlotte Street there are four traffic warden beats. The wardens work in two shifts and there is a period of overlap in the middle of the day when two wardens may be seen on each beat. In the Metropolitan Police District there are at present 420 traffic wardens. Their average take-home pay for a typical week in July was £11 13s.2d. (£13 1s. 10d. gross). The Commissioner of Police sees no advantage, in the congested central area of London, in providing wardens with bicycles, and no scope for any reduction in numbers.