Question follow-through · 25381
Bus Services: Older People
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a trial that would allow those with an older person's bus pass to travel before 9.30am on weekdays at a reduced cost of £1.
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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 assessment her Department has made of the potential merits of introducing a trial that would allow those with an older person's bus pass to travel before 9.30am on weekdays at a reduced cost of £1.
2 Sept 2026
Target answer date
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7 Sept 2026
Answer published
The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) currently provides free off-peak bus travel to eligible older and disabled people and costs around £795 million annually in reimbursement costs to operators. Any change to the statutory concession w...
Official data retrieved 28 Sept 2026.
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7 Sept 2026 · To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment she has made of alternative funding models for rolling stock procurement under GBR such as those highlighted in ASLEF's Own Our Trains campaign which could result in publicly owned trains.