Member

More importantly, the amendment would stop supported services lists from stagnating. As a new development springs up, its needs might then be included. The amendment would curb the risk that the loudest voices secure the best buses. We would have service design and funding guided not by noise, but by numbers. I very much welcome the Minister’s assurance that socially necessary local service guidance will ask local authorities to publish a description of the methodology used, but given that he now accepts the principle, I see no reason why we should not put it in the Bill to future-proof this concept.