Local Transport Bill [Lords]

I certainly think that that should be debated, and we may be given an opportunity to do so if the Bill is given a Committee stage—although I regret to say that owing to his elevated position on the Chairmen's Panel, my hon. Friend will not be able to serve on the Committee. That will be the House's loss. This is a curate's egg of a Bill. It is bad in parts. We should therefore not swallow it whole, as my hon. Friend the Member for Chipping Barnet (Mrs. Villiers) says in her amendment. We should say to the Government ““Take it away, and give us something else.””