Zone exemptions
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IF a haulage firm is set up in ai Enterprise Zone, drivers whp travel outside the Zone will 131 assessed as if they worked fron the area, and thus the employe will not be subject to an indust rial training board levy.
So said the Employmen Secretary James Prior, whei MPs expressed anxiety in th Commons about the advantage which transport firms migh have over their competitors afte setting up in an Enterprise Zone Robert Taylor (ConservativE North-West Croydon) wonder& what would happen if a haulag firm set up inside an EZ and hal a depot outside. That would d€ pend on whether it was consic ered to be a major abuse, M Prior replied.
Frank Hooley (Labour, Heeley was concerned about the pcIE sibility that a haulage firm other businessis in an EZ migh have advantages over compet tors outside it.