Clause 70
Local Transport Bill [Lords]
7:31 pm
Greg Knight (East Yorkshire, Conservative)
I shall be very brief. The clause gives a very wide power. It uses the words
“in such place or places and in such manner as may be prescribed”.
Clearly, the clause gives power to determine both the method of publicity and what information is published, but just as importantly, the language that the information is published in. I am well aware and expect as a sop to the Welsh that, in Wales, we would need to have any leaflet or document published in English and Welsh. However, the one area that the present Prime Minister is right is in his campaign for Britishness and I hope that, in respect of any information published in England—