Question follow-through · 18842

Further Education: Bus Services

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing ring-fenced funding to post-16 colleges to fund bus transport for students.

answeredDepartment for Education

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Answering body: Department for Education
Tabled: 9 Dec 2024
Target answer date: 11 Dec 2024
Answer: 19 Dec 2024 · 10 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

9 Dec 2024
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of providing ring-fenced funding to post-16 colleges to fund bus transport for students.
11 Dec 2024
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
19 Dec 2024
Answer published
The department recognises that the cost and availability of public transport can be an issue for some 16 to 19-year-olds when travelling to their college or sixth form.It is the responsibility of local authorities to put in place transport arrangements to...

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Official data retrieved 27 Sept 2026.

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