Quantity licensing doomed
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says PETER WALKER
• Summing up the effects of their opposition to the Transport Bill at the end of its Committee stage in the Commons on Wednesday, the Conservative party claimed considerable success in altering the Government's freight proposals.
Mr. Peter Walker, who led the Tory side in the longest Committee stage of the longest Bill in Parliamentary history, said:— "So successful has the Opposition been that the abnormal road tax and the wear and tear tax have been dropped, and although the quantity licensing proposals have been retained it is unlikely that they will ever be introduced in the life-time of this Government."
In addition, he said, the proposals on drivers' hours have been considerably changed and made more flexible. Mr. Walker promised that the Tories would continue their attacks on the proposals for PTAs and pledged that the battle against the Bill would go on in Parliament and the country.
"It is our intention to see that by the time this Bill has passed its report stage in the Commons and the long and searching examination that will be necessary in the House of Lords, further major improvements will have taken place."