Issue - meetings
Quality Contract Scheme for Buses - Update
Meeting: 13/07/2015 - Communities, Transport and Environment Policy Development and Scrutiny Panel (Item 9)
9 Quality Contract Scheme for Buses 
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There will be a verbal update on this item. The notes are attached.
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Minutes:
Councillor Bull explained that Andy Strong – Public Transport Manager would give a short update on the new Government Bill on buses. The officer gave the Panel written notes on the background to this Bill (a copy of these notes are attached to the agenda papers for this meeting).
Councillor Bull proposed that the Panel defer consideration of this issue until the details of the Bill become clearer. He proposed that a Task and Finish Group be set up for this issue. Councillor Romero and Butters agreed that a group be established to prepare the ground for the Bill and to ensure everything is done to get buses reliable and get more people to use them.
The Task and Finish Group membership was agreed: John Bull; Jonathan Carr; Neil Butters and Brian Simmons.
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