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ROAD Transport Industrial aining Board has not yet decided how it 11 spread the effect of a massive cuttit in its income.
The Manpower Services Commission is cut the grant it gives to the RTITB by 1,000. This is a direct result of the wemment's efforts to reduce public ending and is part of a £9.8m reduction the grants made to 24 Industrial 'aini ag Boards.
A spokesman for the Manpower Serces Commission said that it was pos)1e that the RTITB's grant may yet be rther reduced on the basis that the Board's income from levies is greater than originally estimated.
The RTITB said it was too early to say how the reduction in the grant would be absorbed or what areas of its work would be affected. The Board will be holding a meeting on August 20 to discuss the full implications of the cut. A spokesman for the RTITB pointed out that the grant cut was made more difficult because it referred to the current financial year, onethird of which has already passed.
Thus, he said, the loss has to be borne in a shorter time, and when the Board had budgeted its spending for the year at a higher grant level.