Mary Creagh MP, Labour’s Shadow Transport Secretary, responding to the Transport Select Committee report, Local Transport Expenditure: Who Decides?, said:

“This report raises serious questions about the Government’s delivery of local transport schemes. Unnecessary competition between local transport bodies and repeated changes to local transport funding can lead to delayed delivery of new transport schemes and lack of accountability to local people.

“This Government’s insistence on competitive bidding for transport funding could lead to areas most in need of new transport funding losing out.”