BUS SAFETY FOR PUPILS

Early day motion 1321, tabled 3 June 2003 by Huw Edwards (Labour). Signed by 66 members.

That this House supports the campaign by BUSK (Belt Up School Kids) to improve the safety of school children and young people travelling to school by bus; expresses condolences to the family and friends of Stuart Cunningham-Jones who died in an accident involving a scheduled bus taking pupils home in the Vale of Glamorgan; and calls on the Government to end legalised overcrowding on scheduled buses by abolishing the three for two rule which allows three pupils under the age of 14 to be seated on a double seat.

Signatures by party: Labour 45, Liberal Democrat 12, Labour/Co-operative 5, Plaid Cymru 2, DUP 1, UUP 1.