§ Sir Bernard Braineasked the Secretary of State for Employment whether, pursuant to his written answer to the hon. Member for Essex, South-East, Official Report, 17th July, cols. 30, 31, he will reconsider the remit of the new Railway Industry Advisory Committee set up by the Health and Safety Commission so that it should consider both ways of improving health and safety of workers engaged in the industry and the protection of the public at large from railway hazards, and should in consequence include representatives of the travelling public such as rail travellers' associations.
§ Mr. John Grant,pursuant to his reply [Official Report, 1st August 1978], gave the following information:
I am informed by the chairman of the Health and Safety Commission that the Commission has taken the view, with the concurrence of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport, that it would not be right for their Railways Industry Advisory Committee to concern itself with those aspects of public safety which are within the responsibility of my right hon. Friend.