HC Deb 08 May 1989 vol 152 c341W
Dr. Kim Howells

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will take steps to strengthen the law as it relates to the transportation of detonators and high explosives in the same vehicle on roads in Wales.

Mr. Peter Bottomley

I refer the hon. Member to the reply I gave to my hon. Friend the Member for Ealing, North (Mr. Greenway) on 4 April, at columns66–67.

The new Road Traffic (Carriage of Explosives) Regulations were laid before Parliament on II April and come into force on 3 July this year.