Buses: Driving

(asked on 2nd December 2021) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether he has had discussions with the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on promoting careers in the bus and coach industry via (a) job centres and (b) materials provided to people in receipt of jobseekers allowance.


Answered by
Trudy Harrison Portrait
Trudy Harrison
This question was answered on 10th December 2021

To date, there have not been any meetings with the SoS for Work and Pensions on this topic.

Individual bus operators are required to ensure they have sufficient staff in order to run their scheduled services. To this end, we expect the bus sector to pursue all opportunities to encourage job seekers into the industry, including working with local job centres

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