Question follow-through · 123265
Public Transport: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of affordable and accessible public transport on supporting older people to (a) remain in and (b) return to employment.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 24 Mar 2026
- Target answer date
- 26 Mar 2026
- Answer
- 31 Mar 2026 · 7 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
24 Mar 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential impact of affordable and accessible public transport on supporting older people to (a) remain in and (b) return to employment.
26 Mar 2026
Target answer date
Date supplied by the official written-questions record.
31 Mar 2026
Answer published
While employment policy sits primarily with the Department for Work and Pensions, the Department for Transport considers the impacts of transport affordability and accessibility through its policy development and funding decisions. This includes supportin...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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