Bus Services: Concessions
(asked on 3rd November 2025) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how many concessionary bus journeys were taken by (a) elderly and (b) disabled people in (i) 2018-19, (ii) 2023-24 and (iii) 2024-25.
The Department publishes statistics on concessionary travel in England in the Concessionary Travel Statistics release, which are based on survey data collected from Travel Concession Authorities (TCAs). Concessionary travel relates to when eligible people travel on reduced (or free) fares.
The latest concessionary travel statistics, including figures on concessionary bus passenger journeys in England for the year ending March 2019 to the year ending March 2024 for older and disabled people are provided in the table below:
Table: Older and Disabled Concessionary Bus Journeys, millions | |||||
Year ending March | England | England outside London | London | English metropolitan areas | English non-metropolitan areas |
2019 | 861 | 592 | 269 | 226 | 366 |
2020 | 802 | 550 | 252 | 209 | 340 |
2021 | 270 | 179 | 92 | 76 | 103 |
2022 | 491 | 322 | 169 | 129 | 193 |
2023 | 570 | 372 | 198 | 141 | 231 |
2024 | 604 | 389 | 215 | 144 | 245 |
More information can be found in the Department’s Concessionary Travel Statistics release, which is available on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/concessionary-travel-statistics-year-ending-march-2024
The Department does not currently hold data separately for elderly and disabled concessionary passenger journeys.
Data for the year ending March 2025 is not currently available but is scheduled for publication on GOV.UK on 26 November 2025.