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Bus Services: Fares

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the £2 bus fare cap on increasing bus usage in (a) the East Midlands and (b) Leicestershire.

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 11 Sept 2024
Target answer date: 7 Oct 2024
Answer: 9 Oct 2024 · 28 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

11 Sept 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the impact of the £2 bus fare cap on increasing bus usage in (a) the East Midlands and (b) Leicestershire.
7 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
9 Oct 2024
Answer published
The £2 fare cap was launched by the Department for Transport (DfT) on 1 January 2023 and is set to remain in place until the end of December 2024. The DfT published an interim report in September 2023 setting out emerging trends in key outcomes from the f...

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