Member

I do not know how many of your Lordships have looked at the plans for changed traffic security around the curtilage of Parliament. The Minister very kindly allowed me to go to a meeting at which he was present, and he was accompanied by a number of officials who showed me the plans of what is intended in any event, not in relation to this proposal, for the curtilage of Parliament. It involves closing two sides of Parliament Square, so that if you are going from Bridge Street to Victoria Street, you will go from Bridge Street, straight on, left and then right into Victoria Street. The other two sides will be closed permanently, and the two sides I have just referred to will be for two-way traffic. Millbank between Parliament Square and Great Peter Street will also be closed to traffic, and there will be a single lane for all traffic wishing to enter the Houses of Parliament, which will have to approach from the Westminster Bridge side of Parliament. There will be no entry into Carriage Gates from Parliament Square or from the bridge; everyone will have to come round the other way. I think the traffic will become chaotic around the northern end of Lambeth Bridge.