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Hauliers refer RTITB scheme to Mrs Castle
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• The Road Haulage Association has criticized the announcement of the second training levy by the RTITB and has asked the Secretary of State for Employment and Productivity, Mrs. Barbara Castle, to take the criticisms into account when considering the Board's proposals.
In a letter to the Ministry the RHA refers to an assurance given by the previous Minister of Labour, Mr. Ray Gunter, that the case for a differential levy would be considered before any proposals as to a second levy were formulated. The Board has postponed any consideration of this point and has not taken account, says the RHA, of "the fact that the road freight haulage element of the road transport industry clearly pays in levy a sum greatly in excess of that which can be returned to it by way of grant, and that in this way the freight section subsidizes those other industries covered by the Training Board".
The letter expresses the "immense concern and disappointment" of the RHA who had reasonably assumed that in framing the latest proposals the Board must have had sufficient information as to the levies paid by, and the grants made to, the road freight industry so that the question of a differential levy could be settled this year.
Concern is also expressed at the short intervals between payments of the levy. It is pointed out that the first levy of 1.6 per cent was paid in two instalments in October 1967 and March 1968 and it is now proposed that the second levy of 019 per cent will be paid in one instalment in December 1968.
If the third levy falls due before October 1969 or before April 1970 this means in practice that the industry will have paid three levies in a period of either 2 or 2i years,