BUS PASSENGER WATCHDOG

Early day motion 237, tabled 14 November 2007 by Graham Stringer (Labour). Signed by 63 members.

That this House expresses concern that bus users often do not know to whom to turn when things go wrong; notes that the bus industry was the only utility to be privatised without the parallel creation of a passenger watchdog regulator; recognises that achieving the Government's aim of increasing bus patronage requires improving how bus users are treated; and calls on the Government to create an independent, statutory, government-funded passenger watchdog for bus users through the Local Transport Bill which will have the power to protect and promote their interests.

Signatures by party: Labour 36, Liberal Democrat 19, Conservative 7, Independent 1.