§ Mr. Rathboneasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list by name those county co-ordinated rural transport schemes which exist at the present time.
§ Mrs. ChalkerI welcome the interest that a number of county councils are showing in the development of new ways of providing transport to meet the needs of rural areas, and in harnessing different transport resources, including those of the educational and social services, to this end. My Department has no comprehensive list of schemes, which can be more or less formal and which need no sanction from central Government. But the Transport and Road Research Laboratory is co-operating with East Sussex county council in setting up and monitoring the ESCORT project, which is designed to get the most out of all the available road passenger transport in the Lewes area.