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Concessionary Bus Travel Bill [HL]

As we are in Committee, perhaps I may ask a question. I hope the Minister will forgive me if the answer is buried in the Bill. I am not sure about the negotiations over these concessionary schemes. I can see that each local authority can deal with its own local bus services but innumerable bus services criss-cross the country. These are national services which are nationally organised and nationally run. Is it the intention that each of the concessionary authorities will deal with these national companies—for example, National Express—on its own, or will there be some kind of central negotiation which will enable them all to come to the same arrangements in national travel schemes?