Question follow-through · 10850
Bus Services: Public Consultation
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance her Department has provided to local authorities on consulting communities on (a) proposals for new and (b) the adequacy of existing bus routes.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 23 Oct 2024
- Target answer date
- 28 Oct 2024
- Answer
- 30 Oct 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
23 Oct 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what guidance her Department has provided to local authorities on consulting communities on (a) proposals for new and (b) the adequacy of existing bus routes.
28 Oct 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
30 Oct 2024
Answer published
Improving local transport services is a key part of this government’s growth mission, and the government has set out plans to deliver better bus services, grow passenger numbers and drive opportunity to under-served regions. The government have been clea...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
Later records
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