Clause 58
Local Transport Bill [Lords]
6:00 pm
John Leech (Shadow Minister, Transport; Manchester, Withington, Liberal Democrat)
I beg to move amendment No. 260, in clause 58, page 51, line 25, leave out from ‘and’ to end of line 27 and insert ‘to the local traffic authority’.
The amendment would require that, where a bus service is not operating as registered and the traffic commissioner, after investigating, issues a report recommending remedial measures, a copy must be sent to the local traffic authority, regardless of whether the local traffic authority is expected to take remedial action. The Bill stipulates that a report must be sent to the local traffic authority only if it must implement any of the recommended remedial measures. The explanatory notes give an example where the local traffic authority might be expected to make changes to help with bus punctuality. There will be occasions on which the local traffic authority is not expected to take any remedial action, but we believe that it should be informed about what action bus operators are to take, regardless of whether it is expected to do anything.