Question follow-through · 12832
Bus Services: Essex
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support bus services in Essex.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 5 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 11 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 14 Nov 2024 · 9 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
5 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to support bus services in Essex.
11 Nov 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
14 Nov 2024
Answer published
Improving local bus services is a key part of this government’s growth mission. As announced in the King’s Speech on 17 July 2024, the government will introduce a Buses Bill later this session. This will put the power over local bus services back in the h...
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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