Local Democracy, Economic Development and Construction Bill [HL]

The noble Lord, Lord Smith, has just asked my first question, so I will not ask it again. I am not clear what progress has been made with integrated transport authorities. Are they are in the process of being set up following the passage of the Local Transport Act last year? How many places are trying to set them up? How long will the process take? Again, it is very odd how the Government put a system in place, and then, before anything happens, they jump on to another stage and move forward. So my question is: where will integrated transport authorities be in, say, two or three years’ time if the people who are discussing them at the moment all succeed in setting them up?