§ Mr. ButlerTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what progress has been made in meetings with representatives of the coach and tourist industries, London local authorities, the police and other Government Departments to alleviate coach parking problems in central London.
§ Mr. FreemanI have today announced a series of initiatives which will help to improve the central London coach parking situation. The measures include the provision of more than 160 new coach parking spaces in or close to central London; the lifting of evening coach parking restrictions on the Victoria embankment and Park lane; the relaunch of the Bus and Coach Council code of conduct for the operating and parking of tourist coaches; arrangements for distribution of the revised code of conduct to coach drivers at continental channel ports and Dover; a new pay and park facility for coaches at the North Mall coach park; Sunday morning opening at the Tower of London; the freezing of charges at the Tower 527W coach park for a third consecutive year and a feasibility study for a radio call back experiment in the area close to Westminster abbey.