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Ministry reveals bulk list
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• A list of the bulk materials which will probably be subject to quantity licensing control was issued this week by the Ministry of Transport.
They are coal (anthracite, bituminous), briquettes of coal, coke and semi-coke, limestone flux and calcareous stone used for the manufacture of lime and cement, clay (including china clay) and similar refractory materials, dolomite, slag, dross scalings, and similar waste from the manufacture of iron and steel, iron ore and concentrates (except roasted iron pyrites), iron and steel scrap, pig iron including cast iron, ingots and other primary forms of iron and steel (including blanks for tubes and pipes), iron and steel bars, rods, angles, shapes and sections (including steel piling), universal plates and sheets of iron or steel, hoop and strip of iron and steel.
This is only a projected list and the actual materials to be affected will be specified in regulations drawn up after consultation with representative organizations.
Mr. Stephen Swingler, Minister of State for Transport, promised members of the Standing Committee on the Transport Bill that there would be "full consultation" before Mrs. Castle made any regulations.
The Bill also allows the Minister to exclude certain traffics from quantity licensing and a provisional list also issued this week as a basis for consultation covers household furniture and the carriage of goods within and between offshore islands with no rail connection with the mainland. The Ministry says that this would include all the Scottish islands and the Isle of Wight but exclude Anglesey and the Isle of Sheppey.
The whole quantity licensing procedure was condemned by the director of the TRTA, Mr. H. R. Featherstone, in Nottingham on Wednesday. He said that one of the absurdities of the system was that nobody wanted it: the CBI had condemned it, the TRTA had condemned it, trade and industry had condemned it and the road haulage industry did not want it.
Mr. Featherstone said that many Labour MPs to whom he had spoken were, at best, extremely dubious about it and the same was true of some Government departments which were concerned about its effect upon the economy and the industries for which they were responsible.
The crunch had been reached the previous night when the debate on special authorization procedure began: the battle was on, to decide whether transport decisions would be taken by trade and industry or Whitehall. It would determine whether we were to have flexibility in transport, or trade and industry in a straitjacket.