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TWO MORE grants for providing rail freight facilities totalling £654,237 have been sanctioned by Transport Minister William Rodgers.
This brings the total number of grants to 24 involving £6 million.
There are 29 similar grants still outstanding which cannot yet be quantified.
Grants paid last week were £535,150 to Tarmac Roadstone Ltd and £119,087 to Ipswich Port Authority.
The Tarmac's payment is toward £1.07 million to provide rail freight facilities at their Hayes depot, Corby and Cliffe Hill quarries and a fleet of vehicles.
The Ipswich payment is toward the cost of £238,175 for rail freight facilities at the West Bank ferry terminal.
Section 8 of the 1974 Railways Act allows the Government to contribute toward the cost of rail freight facilities where it can be shown that the locality or inhabitants would benefit significantly by the transfer of freight from road to rail.
Confidence
The DTp told CM this week that it was unable to give details of the tonnages involved in either the two latest grants or those which have already been made.
This, it said, was a matter of commercial confidence.
It is not possible to assess what the public is getting for its money in terms of alleged reduction of environmental damage.