Bus Services: Subsidies

(asked on 26th November 2018) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide sufficient funding to local authorities to enable bus subsidies to return to their 2010 levels in real terms.


Answered by
Elizabeth Truss Portrait
Elizabeth Truss
This question was answered on 29th November 2018

Government support for bus services has averaged £2.2 billion a year since 2010/11, which is 23 per cent more than the average yearly spend between 1996/97 and 2009/10 in real terms.

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