§ Mr. Raceasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list those topics on which it is not his practice to 268W answer parliamentary questions; and if he will list any changes in the practice of his Department since 9 November 1979.
§ Mr. David HowellI answer only those questions for which I have ministerial responsibility. There are no topics within that responsibility where I have a "practice" of declining to answer. I would not expect to comment on matters which come within the day-to-day management responsibility of the transport industries which are still nationalised, because those matters are not within my ministerial responsibility.