Clause 19
Local Transport Bill [Lords]
12:00 pm
Norman Baker (Shadow Secretary of State for Transport, Transport; Lewes, Liberal Democrat)
I intervene only because I think the point is an important one to nail down. Suppose that an ITA or local authority decides that electric or very low-emission vehicles or some other cutting-edge environmental features would be in the public interest. Would not it be open to the approvals board to decide that they were not in the public interest, because it took a different view and thought such features were uneconomic, and effectively to veto them?