Question follow-through · 58118
Travel: Concessions
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of allowing (a) older and (b) disabled bus pass holders to travel before 9:30am on weekdays under the English national concessionary travel scheme.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 6 Jun 2025
- Target answer date
- 10 Jun 2025
- Answer
- 11 Jun 2025 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
6 Jun 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate her Department has made of the cost of allowing (a) older and (b) disabled bus pass holders to travel before 9:30am on weekdays under the English national concessionary travel scheme.
10 Jun 2025
Target answer date
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11 Jun 2025
Answer published
The Department has not made an assessment of the cost to remove the travel time restriction on disabled passholders concessionary bus passes only or for older person passholders only. However, the Department has conducted a review of the English National ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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