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Local Transport Act 2008: Quality Partnership Schemes

My honourable friend the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport (Paul Clark) has made the following Ministerial Statement. The Government are today publishing their response to the consultation on draft regulations and guidance to support the provisions in the Local Transport Act 2008 about quality partnership schemes (QPSs). Copies of the Government’s response to the consultation will be available on the Department for Transport’s website at www.dft.gov.uk and in the Libraries of the House. Regulations about QPSs will come into force on 6 April 2009, and statutory guidance to local transport authorities and metropolitan district councils under Part 2 of the Transport Act 2000 will be issued shortly. Copies of the statutory guidance will be made available in the Libraries of the House.