Local Transport Bill [Lords]

That course of action would be open to individual ITAs. As I have said, it will be up to an ITA to decide locally whether those members have voting rights. That will be entirely its decision to make, and the concern that my hon. Friend the Member for Manchester, Blackley (Graham Stringer) has indicated could be taken into account. The new clauses also make it clear that each council that falls within an ITA area should be able to appoint at least one of its elected councillors as a member of the ITA, or that if there is a two-tier local government structure, the area must be represented at either county or district level.