PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Bus Services: Tyne and Wear (9 November 2015)

To ask the Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government, what assessment he has made of the effect on proposed devolution deals of the Quality Control Scheme Board's decision to not recommend the re-franchising of bus services in Tyne and Wear.

Asked by:
Bridget Phillipson (Labour)

The Quality Contract Scheme Board’s report concerns an individual case brought under existing legislation. It is not about the bus franchising powers which will be included in the Buses Bill.

The Government is determined that local transport authorities with ambitious plans to grow and develop should be given the powers they need, and we will legislate through the Buses Bill to deliver on that ambition.

Answered by:
Lord Wharton of Yarm (Conservative)
17 November 2015