POINTS FROM PARLIAMENT:
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• It has not yet been decided whether any PTAs will be established in Scotland—reply by Mr. William Ross, Scottish Secretary.
• Negotiations with interested bodies on draft regulations about vehicles transporting dangerous liquids have taken longer than expected— Lord Stonham, in the Lords. He added that final amendments had been approved by the standing advisory committee; regulations for other substances would now be considered.
• Some road transport operators were finding it difficult to meet the RTITB levy, complained Mr. Geoffrey Ripon, (Cons., York). In some cases the levy might be inappropriate. But he was told by Mr. Roy Hattersley that the views of employers' associations had been taken into account when the levy was proposed. However, he had urged the Board to examine the desirability and practicability of differential rates of levy in the light of the first year's experience.