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Good idea — but ...
SPECIAL payments for victims of road accidents, to be met by a special levy on petrol were not favoured by Social Services Secretary David Ennals and his Tory opposite number Patrick Jenkin, when the Commons discussed the report of the Royal Commission recommending it.
These benefits, at rates for people injured at work, would cost about £54 million a year and mean an extra lp on a gallon of petrol.
Mr Ennals agreed that there were obvious attractions in the scheme, but warned that there were also major snags.
By numbers
NEW registration numbers will continue to be introduced in August ... for the-time being.
The Transport Department had decided this after consulting representative organisations of the motor trade, said John Horam, the Under Secretary, in the Commons last week.
Be kind
AGRICULTURE Minister John Silkin was last week urged to introduce European legislation through the Council 'of Ministers to ensure standards throughout the EEC for the well-being of animals transported more than 20 km.
He told the MP who put forward the idea — John Wells (Tory, Maidstone) — that the possibility of improved EEC legislation was one of the considerations that the Government would take into account in reaching a decision on the future of the trade in live food animals.
Free vote
THE Seat Belt Bill will again be subject of a free vote in the House of Commons. This was announced by Michael Foot, the Leader of the House, who .said that MPs, whatever their views, believed this was the right course.