New Clause 3 - Scheduled train and ferry services etc. (no. 2)
Travel Concessions (Eligibility) Bill [Lords]
6:15 pm
Mr Don Foster (Bath, Liberal Democrat)
I hope that I am not pressing my luck. I absolutely understand that the Under-Secretary still has to consult on particular schemes and that she cannot give us the full details today. Will she give the Committee an indication of the scheme that she will be consulting upon? Does she envisage that it will follow the lines that I described a few minutes ago? I suggested that someone living on the Isle of Wight might travel to Southampton by the expensive ferry—it will not be subsidised by the Government in any way, shape of form—but that once in Southampton they could pick up a scheduled coach service and benefit from a half-fare scheme to wherever that person wished to go, perhaps even to Bath, where that person might spend lots of money, because we need it.