Asked by: Gillian Keegan (Conservative - Chichester)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will take steps to ensure that not-for-profit community bus services are not treated as commercial operators under the proposed changes to sections 19 and 22 of the Transport Act 1985.
Answered by Jesse Norman - Shadow Leader of the House of Commons
Departmental officials are analysing the responses to the Government’s consultation about how EU Regulation 1071/2009 applies to not-for-profit community transport operators. The Government’s response will be published in due course.