DECISION by the DoE to rease psv licence fees —
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in ne cases by fourfold — will ;t operators around £3m a tr, according to the Confemtion of British Road Pasiger Transport, which is ging a strong protest.
Che new scale comes into ect on August 13. The new es are: psv licence £45 (previously certificate of fitness £25 L50); 7oad service licence £4 (I); Ind drivers' and conductors' iges 50p (15p).
['hese figures are calculated cover the costs of the !.nsing system and also to over some of the losses ;de in the past two years.
k Confederation spokesman d CM that the DoE had not ,lied to the Confederation's pest for a meeting to dis'is the fees. He said the Confederation was very surprised by the amount of the increases and thought the DoE had handled the matter very badly by allowing the psv licensing system to run into deficit.
A DoE spokesman said that it was Government policy that fees should cover costs and although the accumulated deficit on psv licensing up to April 1974 had been written off this still left £3.6m accrued since then to be recouped.
But the Confederation do not accept this. "In the circumstances we do not think the industry should meet any .part of the accrued deficit," said its spokesman.
With the introduction of the new scale of fees the DoE will abolish the present 121/2p deposit on drivers' and conductors' badges. This will be returned when the licences are renewed.