HC Deb 25 May 1976 vol 912 c175W
Mr. Peter Mills

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment if, in view of the economic difficulties of maintaining a satisfactory system of public transport in rural areas of Devonshire, he will include Devon in his list of experimental areas.

Mr. Marks

My right hon. Friend the Minister for Transport explained in his statement of 3rd December 1975, in answer to the hon. Member for Rye (Mr. Godman Irvine), that the selection of areas for the proposed rural transport experiments will be a matter for the Steering Committee being set up in connection with the experiments. I will bring to the attention of the Steering Committee the hon. Member's advocacy of the claims of Devon to be selected.