Clause 2 - Wales Transport Strategy
Transport (Wales) Bill
11:30 am
David Jones (Clwyd West, Conservative)
I understand fully what the Minister says, but is not the fundamental point the fact that English authorities do not have a voice in the plenary session of the Assembly? Certainly it is possible to go through the informal routes that the Minister suggests, via the Department for Transport, and so on. However, in the end, if an English local authority is aggrieved, should not there be a statutory route through which it can go, and insist on going, rather than relying on the largesse of the Transport Minister?