Clause 1 - School travel schemes
School Transport Bill
10:30 am
Mr John Pugh (Education Spokesperson, Education & Skills; Southport, Liberal Democrat)
I will be interested to hear what the Minister has to say about the effect of the amendment. I simply put on record my concern that the scenario that the right hon. Gentleman describes whereby a local authority extracts itself from an arrangement might not at the end of the day be particularly displeasing to the Government because they can simply accuse the local authority of bad faith, but it might be fundamentally problematic to a range of families that are expecting the scheme to continue to run for a period of time.
The legislation is not simply about pilots, although we are largely talking about them; it allows schemes to be implemented for an indefinite period.