asked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will publish in theOfficial Report a table showing for each year since 1945 the average annual increase or decease in the price of car tax, and indicate both the date and amount of each increase.

The rates of vehicle excise duty on cars since 1945 are given below. Where no year is shown the rates remained unchanged.use of headlamps at all time as an aid to conspicuity, and we will decide whether any further action is needed when we have considered the results of that work.