Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate his Department has made of the proportion of bus users that earned under £25,000 per year in each year from 2017 to 2022 as of 11 January 2022.
According to the National Travel Survey covering households in England, the proportion of bus users who fall into different individual income brackets is as shown in the following table below. Data for 2021 and 2022 will be available in summer 2022 and summer 2023 respectively.
| Less than £25,000 | £25,000 to £49,999 | £50,000 and over | Unweighted sample size (individuals) |
2017 | 72% | 21% | 7% | 8533 |
2018 | 70% | 22% | 8% | 8268 |
2019 | 71% | 21% | 8% | 8054 |
2020 | 68% | 23% | 9% | 2645 |
The figures above refer only to bus users aged 16 and older as individual income information is not held for children.