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date	24/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the timescale is for the publication of the National Bus Strategy; and whether he plans to hold a consultation on that strategy before it is implemented.
tabling member constituency	Nottingham South
tabling member printed	Lilian Greenwood
uin	19852
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2020 answer text <p>We intend to publish the strategy later this year and are currently developing our plans how best to proceed.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 27/02/2020 15:32:47 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4029 label Biography information for Lilian Greenwood

1179068

registered interest
date	21/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans his Department has for issuing new guidance for the operation of community buses under sections 19 and 22 of the Road Traffic Act 1988.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	18920
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/03/2020 answer text <p>The Department will update its guidance on the ‘exclusively non-commercial purposes’ exemption to EU Regulation 1071/2009 on operator licensing in line with the High Court judgement in due course.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 02/03/2020 17:06:18 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1178754

registered interest
date	12/02/2020
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what steps he has taken to increase the number of people using buses.
tabling member constituency	Coventry North West
tabling member printed	Taiwo Owatemi
uin	15103
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 24/02/2020 answer text <p>The Bus Services Act 2017 introduced new powers for local authorities and operators to work together to grow bus passenger numbers.</p><p>The £220 million Better Deal for Bus Users package provides new funding to help transform bus services and a series of complementary commitments, including a National Bus Strategy, which together will detail measures to increase bus usage.</p><p> </p><p>On top of the £1 billion spent by the Government on concessionary travel for eligible older and disabled people, around £250 million is paid every year to support bus services in England to keep fares lower.</p><p> </p><p>There is £5billion of new funding to overhaul bus and cycle links for every region outside London. This package of investment will boost bus services by focusing on a range of priorities, set to include: higher frequency services, new priority schemes will make routes more efficient, more affordable simpler fares and at least 4,000 new Zero Emission Buses.</p> answering member constituency Rochester and Strood answering member printed Kelly Tolhurst question first answered 24/02/2020 16:37:11 answering member 4487 label Biography information for Kelly Tolhurst
tabling member	4779 label Biography information for Taiwo Owatemi