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225867

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date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Oil: Prices
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the effect on fares for (a) rail and (b) bus passengers of changes in the price of a barrel of oil since August 2014.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	226680
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>I am aware that my Rt Hon Friend the Chief Secretary to the Treasury recently wrote to the five largest UK bus operators seeking their assurance that they are doing all they can to ensure passengers benefit from the fall in oil prices.</p><p> </p><p>The bus market outside London is deregulated, with the vast majority of services provided on a commercial basis by private sector bus operators. Decisions on the level of fares are a commercial matter for individual bus operators.</p><p> </p><p>As fuel costs are such a small proportion of the cost of providing rail services we would not expect to see a strong relationship between the two. Rail fares are set based on inflation, of which fuel prices are a component.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/03/2015 16:25:40 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

225871

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Service Operators Grant
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, how much of the bus services operators grant (BSOG) was allocated by local authorities to operators of tendered bus services in each year since 2012-13; what estimate he has made of the total BSOG to operators of tendered bus services in 2015-16; and whether the BSOG budget is ring-fenced for use by local authorities to fund tendered bus services.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	226708
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Since January 2014, BSOG for tendered bus services has been devolved directly to individual local authorities in England outside London. Some £10 million was devolved to authorities for the period January to March 2014, and some further £39 million to cover April 2014 to March 2015. An additional payment will be made in April 2015 to cover the period up to March 2016; this amount is still being finalised. The devolved funding is ring fenced so that authorities must use it to support bus services in their area, although they have the flexibility to decide how best to do this in order to benefit local communities.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/03/2015 16:03:52 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

225872

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
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, how many local authorities in England do not tender contracts for bus transport services, other than those that they are statutorily obliged to do so.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	226682
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>My Department does not hold this information. However we understand that a large majority of local transport authorities choose to support public transport in their areas by means of tendered services</p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/03/2015 17:27:26 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

225926

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Fares
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what estimate he has made of the average passenger fare increase on deregulated bus services in England since July 2014.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	226709
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>The table at</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387116/bus0415.xls" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387116/bus0415.xls</a></p><p> </p><p>shows the change in the local bus fares index in England since March 2014. Data are collected on a quarterly basis (March, June, September and December).</p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/03/2015 15:01:03 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

225939

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Service Operators Grant
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of oil prices on the uptake of the Bus Service Operators Grant (BSOG) by operators of commercial bus services; what the total BSOG claimed from his Department for commercial bus services was in each year since 2010-11; and what estimate he has made of BSOG payments to operators of commercial bus services in 2015-16.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	226681
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>BSOG is paid on a fixed rate of £0.3457 per litre and is no longer directly linked to fuel duty. As a result, changes in oil prices will not have had any direct impact on the uptake of BSOG for commercial services.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Information on the past amounts of BSOG paid for commercial services is not available. However, details of past payments of BSOG overall to individual bus operators can be found at:</p><p> </p><p><a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bus-service-operators-grant-payments-to-english-operators-up-to-31-march-2013" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/bus-service-operators-grant-payments-to-english-operators-up-to-31-march-2013</a>.</p><p> </p><p /> <p>The grant is demand-led; therefore the amount of BSOG to be paid out for commercial services in 2015/16 will depend upon the size of the claims that are submitted by operators; at this stage it is too early to determine for certain what this might be.</p><p /> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/03/2015 17:49:13 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery

225969

registered interest
date	09/03/2015
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Service Operators Grant
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effect of the oil price on the uptake of the Bus Service Operators Grant for tendered bus services.
tabling member constituency	Wansbeck
tabling member printed	Ian Lavery
uin	226766
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/03/2015 answer text <p>Since January 2014, tendered bus services have not been eligible for Bus Service Operators Grant. Instead a similar sum to the amounts paid for tendered services in the past is devolved each year to individual local authorities. Therefore the amounts devolved are not affected by any changes in oil prices.</p><p> </p><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong> </strong></p><p> </p> answering member constituency South Holland and The Deepings answering member printed Mr John Hayes question first answered 16/03/2015 17:29:53 answering member 350 label Biography information for Sir John Hayes
tabling member	4139 label Biography information for Ian Lavery