Clause 2
Local Transport Bill [Lords]
11:15 am
Rosie Winterton (Minister of State, Department for Transport; Doncaster Central, Labour)
But that is exactly why we want to change the Bill—traffic commissioners cannot function outside their own areas. A traffic commissioner in the south-west specialising in punctuality can talk about punctuality only in the south-west, not elsewhere, and we want to remove that inflexibility.