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AN OPERATOR has written to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Mr Denis Healey, attacking Government policy over the distribution of grants to industry.
Mr Jeff Miles, managing director of J. Miles Ltd of Leeds, has complained to the Chancellor that grants are given to other industries but not to the transport industry which does not qualify as it is a service industry.
"Remarkably," he says, there are still some coinpanies which are optimistic enough to want to expand and surely such companies can look forward to wholehearted Government help as some sort of reward for their enterprise.
"Since the Industry Act of 1972 generous grants have been offered for new buildings in a large number of assisted areas; there is just one small snag; service industries, of which removals, van traffic and haulage are deemed to be part, are specifically excluded."
Mr Miles points out much of the country's exports are now being carried in foreignowned trucks and he appeals to the Chancellor to extend the system of grants to the transport industry: "It is time the road transport industry received its fair share of Government encouragement," he said.
He has sent copies of his letter to MPs of all parties including Transport Minister Dr John Gilbert, and the road haulage organisations.