Question follow-through · 75215

Bus Services: Concessions

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of trends in current levels of concessionary bus travel usage.

answeredDepartment for Transport

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Answering body
Department for Transport
Tabled
4 Sept 2025
Target answer date
8 Sept 2025
Answer
8 Sept 2025 · 4 calendar days after tabling

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Recorded timeline

  1. 4 Sept 2025

    Question tabled

    To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of trends in current levels of concessionary bus travel usage.

  2. 8 Sept 2025

    Target answer date

    Date supplied by the official written-questions record.

  3. 8 Sept 2025

    Answer published

    The Department publishes statistics on concessionary travel in England in the Concessionary Travel Statistics release, which are based on survey data collected from Travel Concession Authorities (TCAs). Concessionary travel relates to when eligible people...

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Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.

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