66. It is clear that something is wrong with school transport; the legislative framework is outdated; the services provided can be substandard; parents are increasingly choosing to increase congestion by driving their children to school, rather than choosing healthier modes of transport. It is sensible to approach this problem by allowing LEAs to try a range of approaches, instead of legislating on the basis of hope rather than experience. To this extent, we support the draft School Transport Bill. However, the Government approach is seriously flawed. It does not treat the problem urgently enough. It fails to consider school transport as part of wider transport system. It proposes to give future Secretaries of State power to determine the school transport system without any further legislative authority. This cannot be right. We stress that our comments are related only to the transport aspects of the draft Bill; our colleagues on the Education and Skills Committee will doubtless have more to add.