A busy day, starting in the dentist! Just before midday, dropped down to the Chamber for PMQs. Remained afterwards for the Buses Bill, which aims to shake up service provision and encourage more partnership between local authorities and private bus companies. The MD of one of our providers in S Dorset, Marc Reddy, had already expressed his concern at aspects of the Bill, although he supports the general thrust. What concerns him is an authority's ability to franchise bus routes, which, in turn, could endanger privately operated ones. He thought it an strange thing for Conservatives to do. I managed to intervene twice on the Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, posing two of Mr Reddy's concerns. My Grayling said that councils will not able to franchise services at will. They'd have to prove that there was a need and that bar would be set high. Mr Reddy also thought that if franchised routes did not make money, that councils would then have to draw money from other services to pay for it. Mr Grayling said that was not the intention and again reinstated the need for sound evidence. I then had to leave at 1345 to attend our weekly European Scrutiny Committee, which was held in private. We learnt that next week we are taking oral evidence from farming minister George Eustice. Members of the Efra Select Committee will also participate. Of course where we go post EU and CAP with farming is a big question and no doubt the session will be most interesting. There was no vote at 1900, so back home for supper.