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Goverment ditches plans to force UK hauliers to reveal freight information
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By Roger Brown THE GOVERNMENT has abandoned plans that would have required UK haulage companies to routinely provide police with information about goods coming in and out of the country.
A Home Office spokeswoman says the department is reviewing section 33 of the Immigration. Asylum and Nationality (IAN) Act 2006 — so far not activated — which allows officers to request hauliers regularly reveal details concerning the nature and size of freight consignments.
She adds: "The Home Office has worked closely with the freight industry to identify ways in which the information can be provided through other means, not reliant on the legislation.
"There is no plan to repeal the primary legislation."
Freight Transport Association head of supply chain policy Christopher Snelling believes that the Home Office is looking at voluntary agreements as a means of taking the proposals forward. and that his organisation will "engage in this debate': He adds: "We have not been presented with any evidence to suggest the current intelligence-led system is ineffective.
"We welcome the decision to
abandon the initial proposals, which appeared totally unworkable, to the extent that they had been developed at all. Peter Cullum, Road Haulage Association (RHA) head of international affairs, argues the initial proposals would have resulted in -significant extra costs" for transport organisations.
He adds: "The RHA and other organisation have been advising the Home Office for three years on the best way to proceed, and we're pleased they have decided to review their position."
Peter Quantrill, director general of the British International Freight Association, believes the measures would have had an "adverse impacton British firms, and also resulted in the diversion of cargo away from UK ports.