Member

I shall deal with the other amendments. Amendment 30 addresses the fact that local transport authorities are to be given grant-making powers. What we are trying to do in this amendment is ensure that those grant-making powers are not used wilfully or in a way that has consequential damages that have not been properly considered. That is why this amendment requires the local transport authority to consult stakeholders about the effects on other services, including private bus services and licensed services elsewhere in the local transport authority, neighbouring authorities and so forth. I think it is a very sensible amendment, and it should be supported.