Ms Anne Graham:

In my opening statement, I mentioned bringing services together. That is the NTA's function. We have a role in integrating services. We fund all the infrastructure associated with that. As a body, we can bring that infrastructure together. There are a number of delivery partners that have to deliver elements of the infrastructure, and we are prepared to work with local authorities to deliver that, as we do already. What we need to do is to encourage local authorities to be more ambitious in delivering the infrastructure, to have it on their work list so that they do not just maintain the roads but also consider active travel and provision for bus infrastructure as part of that. We have the funding available to be able to support that. We need to engage much more actively with the local authorities and other delivery partners to really get that element of the infrastructure up and running as quickly as possible.