Question follow-through · 21903
Public Transport: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to improve public transportation to help people stay connected with communities.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 3 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 7 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 10 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
3 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to improve public transportation to help people stay connected with communities.
7 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
10 Jan 2025
Answer published
The government knows that a modern public transport network is vital to providing access to services and keeping communities connected. The government introduced the Bus Services (No.2) Bill on 17 December to put the power over local bus services back int...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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