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M.o.T. Resists Bus Denationalization

26th February 1954, Page 129
26th February 1954
Page 129
Page 129, 26th February 1954 — M.o.T. Resists Bus Denationalization
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A RESOLUTION expressing disEa appointment "that no steps have yet been taken to restore passenger road transport services to private enterprise" and urging the Government to do so immediately, was defeated at the meeting of the central council of the National Union of Conservative and Unionist Associations in London last Friday. Mr. C. Stuart Hallinan, of Wales and Monmouthshire, moved the resolution.

Replying to the debate, the Minister of Transport, Mr. A. T. Lennox-Boyd, said that if they were to denationalize passenger transport, he would have to compel the British Transport Commission to sell the part of their shareholding that gave them a majority holding in bus companies.

" Even then, in all probability, they would still remain the largeSt single holder of shares, unless, of course, the part of which they divested themselves went in whole to a private undertaking. Then you would have to face the charge that we had broken up a public monopoly in order to create a private monopoly." he said.

Continuing. Mr. Lennox-Boyd said: "In our desire to take transport out of Parliament let us not feel that it can only be done by following a purely Conservative solution."

He recognized that there was a strong feeling in favour of him using his powers, " but whether or not to use them, and at what moment to use them, must, I think, fairly be left as the Minister's responsibility."


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