asked the Minister of Transport when he will introduce his provisional legislation to give effect to the recommendations of the Cassels Committee on Third Party Compulsory Insurance; and whether, in view of the comparatively small number of cases involved, and the fact that there has been a court decision in all these cases he will give further consideration to the justice of making this legislation retrospective to the date of the committee's report?

Legislation on this subject is under consideration, but I am not in a position to give a definite date for its introduction. I do not think that it would be practicable or equitable to deal retrospectively with claims, and the committee to which my hon. Friend refers did not make any such recommendation.