Transport (Wales) Bill

moved Amendment No. 12:"Page 4, line 24, at end insert—" ““(   )   the effect of any incentive scheme on passengers making connections between transport services,”” The noble Lord said: I move Amendment No. 12 and speak to Amendment No. 14, which is grouped. This is where I ask the Assembly to take notice of the ability to make connections between transport services—buses and trains. Amendment No. 14 is fundamental to buses. The bus industry was deregulated under the Transport Act 1985. The competition arrangements are regulated by that Act, the Competition Act and, I think, by the Enterprise Act, but I am not certain of that. But those are extremely heavy-handed, almost sledgehammer ways to regulate an industry that is, in most parts of Wales, very sparse. If we are to achieve the type of service that gives passengers the opportunity to connect between bus services and between bus and train services, we need the bus and train operators to work together. I hope that the Minister will know that it is illegal in most cases for bus operators to work together because laws about monopolies and trading practices are such that, if a bus operator—