Hgv safety measures grant slashed
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• Less money is to be spent in the current year on capital equipment for heavy goods vehicles' safety measures, reveals the Civil Estimates on Government spending published on Tuesday. This covers the provision of equipment for testing vehicles, licensing drivers and supplying weighbridges. The estimated cost is /125,000, a reduction of £57,000.
Another planned cut—by E2m to f15m—is that in Government support for losses incurred by the National Freight Corporation on freight sundries traffic.
A total of £425,000 is provided for further preliminary expenses in connection with the Channel Tunnel, a rise of /225,000.
Grants towards approved expenditure on the provision of new buses are to be stepped up by /2.25m to £7.5m.
The grant to London Transport Executive is to be cut by /1,800,000 to £9,200,000.
Overall expenditure on transport services is due to fall by /22,858,300 to /190,160,000.
Increases include grants to road passenger transport operators towards duty charged on fuel of £21,300,000 (up by £300,000); grants towards approved capital expenditure on public passenger transport facilities of £8m (up by /1,200,000); grants towards bus and ferry services in rural areas of /300,000 (up by £200,000) and for transport studies, research and development of £2,300,000 (up by £400,000).
There is to be a decrease in the subsidy to British Railways for unremunerative passenger services of £14,400,000 to /57,600,000.
(Supply Estimates 1970-71. Class IV communications, trade and industry, HMSO, 16s. 6d.)