SRA slams suggestions it is responsible for ABS delay

The chair of the SRA Charles Plant said: "It is important to set the record straight. The suggestion that the delay in the introduction of SRA-licensed ABS is attributable to the SRA is simply wrong."

On the two issues which have been cited as a cause for the delay - the mechanism for appeals against SRA decisions and the provision to exempt owners and managers from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act - Mr Plant said the SRA's position has been established and public for a long period and had