Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what impact the £2 bus ticket cap has had on bus usage.

The Department for Transport’s interim report evaluating the first month of the £2 bus fare cap found that 10% of survey respondents stated that they were making more bus journeys since the scheme started, and around a third felt that the fare cap had had a positive impact on their cost of living. The report has been published on GOV.UK at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ons/evaluation-of-the-2-bus-fare-cap . A survey conducted by Transport Focus of over 1,000 people also reported that 11% of respondents stated that they were using the bus more as a result of the cap.

Nationally reducing the fare cap still further would come at a high cost to the taxpayer. It should be noted that TfL have recently increased fares.