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Local Transport Bill [HL]

Although this is clearly a probing amendment, I suppose one could think of all sorts of technical difficulties in seeking to apply it. I hope that the Minister will say in his response that he supports the amendment, but if he objects to it, will he say whether he objects to it in principle or because of the logistics of trying to implement it? Bearing in mind the spirit of the amendment and the difficulties that homeless people have in finding the money to travel around at all, as well as their need to do so—as we all do on occasions—I hope that he might be sympathetic to it and say something helpful about it.