§ Mr. AlisonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport what plans he has for introducing continuous licensing for524W month of the dates of birth of each animal in the BSE cohort study and (b) the date of birth of each animal that has been confirmed with BSE in each six-monthly period from the start of the cohort study.
§ Mr. WaldegraveThe following is a table, by month and year of birth, of the number of animals in the cohort study:
month and year of birth. It is not known how many of the confirmed cases are offspring and how many are controls as the study is being carried out blind:
commercial vehicles and heavy goods vehicles to mitigate problems of illegal operation.
§ Mr. Heathcoat-AmoryI have been asked to reply.
The Government have no plans to introduce continuous licensing for goods vehicles in excess of 3.5 tonnes. The Chancellor of the Exchequer has, however, announced his intention to introduce a number of other measures for goods vehicles—including clarifying their definition and weight, and reducing the number of concessionary classes—which will help to reduce evasion.