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Bill saves bureaucracy says Mr. Marsh
Page 56
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• Mr. Richard Marsh has considered various alternatives to the quantity licensing system in the Transport Bill, but—he told MPs—none of them was likely to be as effective as the proposals in the Bill.
His Tory opposite number, Mr. Peter Walker, asked the Minister to give further consideration to the suggestion put to him of a system whereby British Railways were informed of the rate charged, and could put forward their quotation. This, said Mr. Walker, would eliminate all the systems of tribunals that would otherwise have to be set up.
Mr. Marsh replied that the present position under the Transport Bill saved a great deal of bureaucracy by releasing something like 100,000 vehicles from licensing.
The difference between him and Mr. Walker was that the Dutch system, which was basically what the Tories proposed, would present information but in the last resort the consignor could still stick to road transport in the face of all the evidence that rail was just as good.