§ Mr. Michael McNair-Wilsonasked the Secretary of State for the Environment whether his arrangements with the Motor Insurers' Bureau will be extended to include payments in respect of death or bodily injury of voluntary passengers caused by their drivers' negligence; and whether similar arrangements will apply in the case of Crown vehicles.
§ Mr. PeytonYes, except in cases where the injured passenger was allowing himself to be carried in a vehicle which he knew or had reason to believe was taken without the owner's consent, or was the owner or user of the vehicle and knew that it was uninsured. Revised agreements to this effect, dealing with cases involving uninsured and unidentified drivers respectively, have been concluded with the Motor Insurers' Bureau and will be published as soon as possible. A small adjustment has also been made in the basis on which the bureau's payments in cases involving unidentified drivers are to be assessed.
So far as Crown vehicles are concerned, compensation will normally be payable on the same basis, except where the victim is a Serviceman or Servicewoman whose death or injury gives rise to an entitlement to a pension or other compensation from public funds.