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Bill will axe 50 jobs

15th December 1979
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FIFTY administrative jobs will disappear from Traffic Commissioners' offices when the Transport Bill becomes law, according to Transport Minister Norman Fowler.

The figure is contained in his share of the Civil Service job cuts announced last week, and which are supposed to be absorbed through natural wastage.

Mr Fowler says that the simplified road service licensing procedures contained in the Bill will require less clerical Effort by staff, and that 50 of he 240 jobs will become unlecessary.

He says that immediate iavings will flow from the ibolition of road-service licening for express services, ex:ursions and tours; the eplacement of individual :chicle licensing by operator censing; and the extension of urviving road-service cences from three to five ears.

While Mr Fowler makes no iention of strengthening existing vehicle inspection staff to cope with the qualitybiased Transport Bill's proposals, he does make clear that there will be no reduction on the technical side.