asked the Home Secretary when the revised regulations for the carriage of dangerous acids by road will be ready; whether he is aware that large quantities of such acids are now being transported by road, and that recently seven lorries containing carboys presumably filled with such acids were met with in a short distance on the Great North Road; whether he will bear in mind the disaster which occurred in 1933 at Boroughbridge owing to a collision with a lorry containing such acids; and therefore can he expedite the issue of such regulations?

I am not in a position at the moment to specify a date for the issue of the draft regulations; but I can assure the hon. and gallant Member that I fully appreciate the considerations to which he calls attention, and that, as I informed him in answer to his question on the 4th instant, all possible steps are being taken to expedite the matter.