asked the Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of War Transport whether he will consider placing a luggage van on all long distance trains for the sole use of Service personnel in which they can place their equipment under the care of a guard and thus relieve the present congestion in compartments and corridors?

On almost all long distance trains there are already the maximum number of coaches which the locomotives can pull. An additional luggage van could, therefore, only be provided if a passenger coach were taken off. I regret that the result would thus be to increase, rather than to diminish the present congestion.