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Armitage inquiry to be axed?
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THE ARMITAGE Committee of Inquiry looks as if it could be set for the chop in the latest round of cost-paring exercises by the Government.
As CM went to press, a transport department spokesman told CM that the Armitage Committee of Inquiry into people, the environment and heavy lorries was under review, along with several other transport-related quangos, including the Freight Integration Council, the Transport Tribunal and the Transport and Road Research Laboratory Advisory Council.
Earlier in the week it looked as if transport interests would survive relatively unscathed in Environment Minister Michael Heseltine's cull of quangos (quasi autonomous non-govermental organisations), and Transport Minister Norman Fowler has made no statement yet about those for which he is responsible.
So far only one such body has definitely been abolished. It is the Planning and Transportation Research Advisory Council which comes under the dual jurisdiction of the Departments of Transport and the Environment. It employs a chairman and 15 unpaid members and costs about £10,000 a year. Its work will be done in future by direct but informal contact.
Also on the way out are eight regional economic planning councils, reckoned to be costing around £210,000 a year. Mr Heseltine's economies — 57 of 119 quangos under his jurisdiction have already been sacked — will save an estimated £1.4m.