Clause 11 - Uniform
Traffic Management Bill
5:30 pm
Mr David Wilshire (Spelthorne, Conservative)
I beg to move amendment No. 23, in
page 5, line 41, leave out 'may' and insert 'must'.
I could speak at some length about the amendment, and had looked forward to doing so, because the implication of the clause is there could be a free-for-all when the Minister becomes converted to the idea of privatisation. A number of authorities will contract out the service, and I should hate to think that we were giving them an opportunity to compete with each other for the most garish uniform. They might even decide to sell advertisements on the backs or fronts of the jackets if we had no control.