To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department if he will call for a report from the Commissioner of Police of the Metropolis as to how many coach drivers have been prosecuted for dangerous driving following the discharge of their passengers into the middle of the road on Westminster bridge and as to what steps he intends to ensure adequate parking restrictions; and if he will make a statement.

I am advised by the commissioner that there is no record of prosecutions having been brought in such circumstances. The Metropolitan police would take suitable enforcement action if offences came to light. The imposition of parking restrictions is a matter for the local authority concerned.