Question follow-through · 22165
Buses: Fares
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to (a) local authorities and (b) bus companies on the pricing of children's fares.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 6 Jan 2025
- Target answer date
- 8 Jan 2025
- Answer
- 13 Jan 2025 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jan 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether her Department has issued guidance to (a) local authorities and (b) bus companies on the pricing of children's fares.
8 Jan 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
13 Jan 2025
Answer published
At present, bus services in England outside London are predominantly run on a commercial basis by private operators, and the level at which bus operators set their fares is a commercial decision. The government is committed to delivering better bus servic...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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