Question follow-through · 15398
Bus Services: Concessions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a reciprocal agreement between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to accept pensioners' bus passes.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 20 Nov 2024
- Target answer date
- 27 Nov 2024
- Answer
- 27 Nov 2024 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
20 Nov 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has made an assessment of the potential merits of a reciprocal agreement between England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to accept pensioners' bus passes.
27 Nov 2024
Target answer date
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27 Nov 2024
Answer published
Concessionary travel is a devolved policy area so the administrative arrangements in Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland differ from those in England. There are no plans at present to introduce such an arrangement.
Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.
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