Member

I return to the point that the noble Lord made. The senior traffic commissioner’s statutory documents give guidance to traffic commissioners when operators are in front of them for inadequate reliability. I look forward to a revision of those documents this year to reinforce the power of the traffic commissioner and their willingness to bring local highway and transport authorities in front of them where it is believed that they have contributed to the unreliability of bus services. In answer to the noble Lord’s point about staffing, local transport authorities can of course refer, with detailed data about bus reliability, directly to the traffic commissioner in order for a hearing to take place.