Question follow-through · 86144
Public Transport: Finance
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to provide funding by the end of this Parliament to local authorities to enable them establish a minimum level of public transport connectivity.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 28 Oct 2025
- Target answer date
- 30 Oct 2025
- Answer
- 31 Oct 2025 · 3 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Oct 2025
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will take steps to provide funding by the end of this Parliament to local authorities to enable them establish a minimum level of public transport connectivity.
30 Oct 2025
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Oct 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 is already providing funding to local authorities to help them deliver improved local transport and bus ...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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