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No own-account exemption from quantity licensing
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• The Government does not propose to bring forward any amendment on the Report stage of the Transport Bill in the House of Lords to deal with questions raised on the application of the quantity licensing proposals to own-account transport.
This is stated in a letter from Lord Winterbottom, who was the Government spokesman on this part of the Transport Bill in the Lords, to Lord Somers. The letter states: "During the Committee Stage of the Transport Bill on July 9, I promised to let you have the Government's views on your suggestion that the mode of moving goods wholly between different premises of a single firm should be at the choice of that firm (i.e. that some own-account operations should be exempt from quantity licensing), since it might "add to their expenses enormously if they have in some cases to use rail transport and in others possibly roads".
"I think there is little I can add to what I said in reply to questions from Lord Nugent during the debate on whether Clause 73 should stand part of the Bill (Cols. 818-819). There is no doubt that the Bill, as it is at present drafted, provides safeguards against the possibility that a firm's transport costs could be increased as a result of quantity licensing.
"The criteria on which the Licensing Authorities will decide disputed cases are such that, if movement of goods by rail would be less beneficial (including in terms of cost) than movement by road, the traffic will not be diverted to rail by quantity licensing. Furthermore, it will be open to the Licensing Authorities to take into account the total effect on all road transport services which an applicant wishes to operate to carry his own goods of the substitution of rail transport for some only of those services.
"The Bill therefore already meets the arguments which you deployed in support of your proposal and consequently we do not propose to bring forward an amendment on Report."