§ Mr. Frank Allaunasked the Secretary of State for Trade if he will hold immediate consultations with the travel associations with a view to making arrangements which will avoid late cancellations and the withholding of repayments to holiday makers of sums paid by them for holidays by travel firms which have gone into liquidation, particularly where schoolchildren are concerned.
§ Mrs. Sally OppenheimNo. The relevant trade association, the Association of British Travel Agents, which represents members in some 4,400 retail travel agents' offices in the United Kingdom, already has 81W arrangements for protection against the failure of its members. Unfortunately, travel agents who are not members of the trade association will not be included in these arrangements.