Local Transport Bill [Lords]
4:00 pm
Rosie Winterton (Minister of State, Department for Transport; Doncaster Central, Labour)
The traffic commissioner should have regard to the guidance, which means that they should take it into account in the exercise of their duties. What it does not mean, as I have said, is that they would be breaking the law if they did not manage to improve bus punctuality. It comes back to the issue of how to do things such as monitoring performance. The guidance would need to be about the principles relating to how the senior traffic commissioner carries out his functions.