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Time to scrap the RTITB
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I REFER to recent comments as to the value (or otherwise) of the RTITB.
May I suggest that all of your readers write to their MPs to ask that this body be scrapped. I have written to the Hon Alan Clark, MP, along the following lines: Study of the report and accounts of the RTITB for the year ended 1 979 reveals: a) Total cash received from the road transport industry and the Manpower Services Commission £36,896,000 b) Total grants paid to the road transport industry £25.600,000 thus leaving some
£11,296,000 for running their "Empirewhich represents an indirect tax on the road transport industry, which also has to find the money and time to process RTITB claims, etc.
The report also shows total payment to staff of £5,962,000 and an average of 865 employed--£6,982 p.a. average pay. Compare this with my own Group's published accounts for 12 months ended December, 1979— an average of £4,977 per employee. In addition to these pay figures for the RTITB must be added sums for travel and subsistence.
I believe that one of the Board's reactions to requests for public expenditure cuts is to reduce payments to the industry for apprentices.
The Board seems prudent in having some £2,680,000 reserved in its account for potential redundancy — it can therefore be killed off fairly painlessly.
D. J. BURKE Managing Director W. Mum ford Ltd Plymouth