Orders of the Day — Travel Concessions Bill

Part of the debate – in the House of Commons at 12:00 am on 13 November 1964.

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Photo of Mr Hugh Wilson Mr Hugh Wilson , Truro 12:00, 13 November 1964

It is not quite so bad here, but we should get many anomalies. I think that it would be better to give benefits in cash than in kind. I should have thought that it would be better to have swept away all these concessions and to give more cash. As concessions have existed for a long time something would have to be done about them when there are alterations in the boundaries of towns, and so on. It is quite anomalous that a person can get concessions on half a route and not on the other half. Something has to be done about that position and the Bill is an attempt to do it. I do not think the Act could have been left as it was in 1955, but I regret that something different from this Bill has not been put forward, although I certainly do not intend to oppose it.