asked the Minister of Transport if he will sub-divide the estimate of £215,000 for road safety propaganda in the figures of his Department for the year 1952–53 under the headings, grants to local authorities, Press and poster advertising and subsidy to Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.
The estimate of £215,000 is made up as follows:
| £ | |
| Grants to local authorities | 135,000 |
| The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents | 69,000 |
| Films and miscellaneous publicity | 10,000 |
| Miscellaneous expenditure not related to road safety propaganda | 1,000 |
| Total | £215,000 |
asked the Minister of Transport if he will conduct an experiment by propaganda to encourage pedestrians at a crossing to signal to traffic that they wish to cross as proposed by the Committee on Road Safety of his Department in a recent report.
No. In my opinion it would be unwise to encourage pedestrians to give such signals. If given clearly and in good time they might be helpful in some circumstances, but they would be dangerous if used without a uniformly high standard of judgment and discretion.