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Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of which initiatives in Bus Service Improvement Plans create the highest levels of modal shift.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body: Department for Transport
Tabled: 4 Oct 2024
Target answer date: 8 Oct 2024
Answer: 14 Oct 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

4 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of which initiatives in Bus Service Improvement Plans create the highest levels of modal shift.
8 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Oct 2024
Answer published
It is too early in the lifetime of the Bus Service Improvement Plans programme to fully understand which initiatives have had the most impact. The Department for Transport has commissioned an evaluation of the Bus Service Improvement Plan Programme, a £1....

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