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Local Transport Bill [HL]

My Lords, it is a matter of diaries. It is my hope that we can have some useful discussions with the moving spirits behind the amendment so we can make some progress in that regard. I asked whether it would be possible to give a date for an announcement, but the answer has come back that that would be unwise; we do not want to commit ourselves to something that we do not then deliver. However, the term ““very shortly””, to my way of thinking, means exactly that. I do not want this thing to drag on any longer because that would not be in anyone’s best interests.