Question follow-through · 24967
Bus Services: Standards
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her department is taking to ensure national bus operators meet their contractual obligations.
About this written question
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- Answering body
- Department for Transport
- Tabled
- 28 Aug 2026
- Target answer date
- 2 Sept 2026
- Answer
- 7 Sept 2026 · 10 calendar days after tabling
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Recorded timeline
28 Aug 2026
Question tabled
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps her department is taking to ensure national bus operators meet their contractual obligations.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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7 Sept 2026
Answer published
For bus services which are run under contract to local authorities, the local authority is responsible for enforcing those contracts.Bus services which are run on a commercial basis are not subject to a contract but are subject to regulation by the Traffi...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
Later records
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