§ Sir Bernard Braineasked the Secretary of State for Employment why representatives of the travelling public have not been appointed to the new Advisory Committee for Railways set up by the Health and Safety Commission to consider ways of improving health and safety for workers engaged in the railway industry and the protection of the public from related hazards.
§ Mr. John GrantThe safety of railway travellers falls in the main within the responsibility of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Transport and was 31W to that extent placed outside the remit of the Railway Industry Advisory Committee.