I am grateful for the opportunity to say something on this matter. The hon. Member for Brentford and Chiswick (Mr. Barnes) felt that improvements to the roundabouts along the Great Chertsey Road in the Twickenham stretch should be contingent on being accompanied by traffic lights. One can appreciate his concern about the effects of this traffic on Chiswick, with which we in Twickenham sympathise, but I would ask him equally to sympathise with our problems. I cannot see the reason for his contention, whatever the merits of traffic lights. Twickenham people would be placed at a serious disadvantage if the roundabouts were improved, regardless of whether or not they were accompanied by traffic lights.

If the motorway traffic comes in and the roundabouts are not enlarged to cope with it, there will be serious traffic jams, the motorway traffic will not be able to get through and it will be likely to spill over into residential side roads in order to avoid those jams.