Local Transport Bill [HL]

moved Amendment No. 109: 109: Clause 71, page 61, line 10, leave out ““one”” and insert ““two”” The noble Lord said: My Lords, the amendment would ensure that reviews of integrated transport authorities cannot be triggered by a single local authority acting alone and that reviews of ITAs involve the ITA itself. Clause 71 states: "““Any one or more of the authorities falling within subsection (2) may undertake a review””." The Government did not engage with the specific point in Committee, other than to say that guidance was the best place to deal with the detail of how reviews are to be carried out. How reviews are to be carried out is not the issue. The number of local authorities it takes to trigger a review is specified in the Bill—it says ““any one or more””. The amendment would provide a safeguard against vexatious reviews. By their very nature, existing ITAs are collaborative bodies. These amendments would also ensure that the ITA was party to its own review. This is likely to be a matter for guidance, but the amendment would ensure that any review of an ITA would be a collaborative exercise between local authorities and their ITA. I beg to move.