Question to the Department for Education:

To ask His Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Baroness Smith of Malvern on 4 April (HL5949), and in the light of the launch of the voluntary local authority data collection on home-to-school transport on 3 February, (1) what number of pupils receive publicly funded home-to-school transport in each local authority; (2) what proportion of home-to-school transport spending is attributable to taxi or private hire vehicle usage; and (3) which local authorities offer parental mileage allowances or direct payment schemes in place of council-arranged transport.

The voluntary local authority data collection exercise closed in mid-March. The department is currently analysing the data and plans to share findings with local authorities later in the year.