Question follow-through · 103907
Bus Services: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered the potential merits of providing free bus travel to over 60s across the whole of the UK.
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 7 Jan 2026
- Target answer date
- 12 Jan 2026
- Answer
- 12 Jan 2026 · 5 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
7 Jan 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether she has considered the potential merits of providing free bus travel to over 60s across the whole of the UK.
12 Jan 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
12 Jan 2026
Answer published
The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) provides free off-peak bus travel to those with eligible disabilities and those of state pension age. The ENCTS costs around £795 million annually in reimbursement costs to bus operators, and any ch...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
Possible follow-up questions
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Great British Railways: Collective Bargaining
16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps she is taking to help ensure that all future Great British Railways workers are covered by collective bargaining agreements.
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16 Mar 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of the potential implications for her policies of the derecognition of trade unions in the recent TUPE transfer of workers from Network Rail into Platform 4.
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Road Works
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