Clause 7 - Provision of public passenger transport services
Transport (Wales) Bill
12:30 pm
Huw Irranca-Davies (Ogmore, Labour)
This is what I have been struggling with. I cannot envisage any situation in my constituency in which, knowing the deficiencies that already exist, I would support giving taxpayers’ money to a commercial operator—or, rather, to a commercially viable route, not a commercial operator: good luck to them. Perhaps the Minister will respond to that point and to the intervention by the hon. Member for Monmouth about extending routes. I am all in favour of extending routes and providing public money for that, where the route is not currently commercially viable—but not where a profit is already being made.