Bus Services: North East

(asked on 23rd March 2016) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the adequacy of bus services in Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Teesside.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 11th April 2016

The bus market outside London is deregulated and decisions regarding service provision is primarily a commercial matter for bus operators. Decisions about the provision of subsidised services are a matter for individual English local authorities, in the light of their other spending priorities.

The Government is committed to supporting bus services in England. We are taking forward a Buses bill to provide local authorities with the tools they need to improve local bus services.

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