HC Deb 06 April 1965 vol 710 cc62-3W
Sir J. Langford-Holt

asked the Secretary of State for Home Department (1) whether the Commissioner of Police for the Metropolitan area is satisfied that the provisions of Regulation 5 London (Waiting and Loading) Restrictions (No. 2 Regulations) 1965 and Section 34(4) of the Road Traffic Act, 1960, Waiting in a Restricted Street, are being observed in Halkin Place, S.W.l; to what extent certain vehicles persistently contravene these regulations; and to whom these vehicles belong;

(2) if he is aware of the ignoring of parking restrictions in the Belgrave Square and Halkin Place area by cars of members of the staffs of diplomatic missions; and what requests have been made to the heads of those missions that their staffs should, wherever possible, conform to parking restrictions;

(3)on how many occasions requests that cars used by their staffs should conform wherever possible to the waiting restrictions applied in Halkin Place, S.W.1, to non-privileged drivers, have been sent to heads of diplomatic missions in the area.

Miss Bacon

I am informed by the Commissioner of Police that Halkin Place and Belgrave Square are not subject to waiting restrictions.