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6th March 2003, Page 7
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

• It's 78 days since CM editor-in-chief Brian Weather1ey wrote to the Home Secretary David Blunkett requesting the return .£2m of hauliers' money taken under the government's previous stowaway regime—and still no reply.

CMs campaign aims to get the government to repay the £2m already paid out by hauliers in now-abandoned civil penalties. When the immigration rules were changed, the govern _ ment said it would drop the £12m of outstanding fines, but refused to return the fines already paid.

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Many CM readers I signed and returned the protest letter we printed, ...and we're and we're planning to STILL waitiflg! deliver those to David

Blunkett soon. We've also had strong support from website Trucknet (wwwtrucknetuk.com I.

U CM Is also waiting to hear from the Home Office about proof of scanning for hauliers who pass through scanning devices at Calais. Concerns that hauliers couldn't prove they had been scanned at the port were first raised in CA1(30 Jan-5 Feb). CM arranged for Lib Dom Home Office spokesman to write to Immigration Minister Beverley Hughes, requesting some means of proof (CM 13-19 Feb). but we're still awaiting the reply.

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