Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, pursuant to the Answer of 7 November 2017 to Question 110811, on patient transport, whether any meetings held in the last three years between the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Transport discussed the effect of decreases to (a) bus routes and (b) the frequency of bus services on the ability of older people to access NHS appointments.

The Secretary of State for Health’s conversations with the Secretary of State for Transport cover a wide range of issues. However, the Department of Health searched for and found no record of meetings held in the last three years between the Secretary of State for Health and the Secretary of State for Transport regarding the effect of decreases to bus routes and the frequency of bus services on the ability of older people to access NHS appointments.