FAIR FARES FOR ALL CAMPAIGN

That this House supports the Leeds-based campaign, Fair Fares For All, which has been set up in response to recent ticket price increases, poor reliability and service on some routes by First buses; notes that fares on local bus services have increased by almost 40 per cent. in the last two years, with the cost of a single one-way fare for more than four stops having risen from 1.70 to 1.90; is concerned that these price changes have been poorly advertised; and calls for Metro, West Yorkshire's passenger transport authority, to regulate services through a bus quality contracts scheme to standardise fares, routes and frequency of service.