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1685152

registered interest
date	25/01/2024
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, with reference to his Department's policy paper entitled Bus Back Better: national bus strategy for England, published on 15 March 2021, what his planned timetable is for the review of the rights of local authorities to set up new municipal bus companies.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	11513
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 02/02/2024 answer text <p>The Department intends to publish a Call for Evidence , as the first part of a review into whether it remains right that local authorities cannot set up new municipal bus companies.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 02/02/2024 12:10:16 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1669939

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
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, with reference to page 4 of the Sixth Special Report of the Transport Committee of Session 2022-23 on Implementation of the National Bus Strategy: Government response to the Committee’s Fourth Report, published on 6 June 2023, when he plans to publish guidance on social and economically necessary bus services.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	1957
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>We plan to publish new guidance on socially and economically necessary services (SENS) in this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 1958 question first answered 22/11/2023 11:11:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1669941

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
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, with reference to his Department's response to the Transport Select Committee's report entitled Implementation of the National Bus Strategy, HC 1431, published 22 June 2023, what his Department's timescales are for the publication of new guidance on socially and economically necessary bus services.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	1958
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>We plan to publish new guidance on socially and economically necessary services (SENS) in this Parliament.</p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman grouped question UIN 1957 question first answered 22/11/2023 11:11:28 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1669959

registered interest
date	14/11/2023
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 discussions his Department has had with (a) Google and (b) other online providers of travel information on ensuring that information can be accessed on journeys that can be made involving demand responsive bus travel.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	1959
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 22/11/2023 answer text <p>The Bus Open Data Service (BODS) ensures national bus timetables, fares, and live bus locations are provided from one open-source platform. Relevant legislation requires that this data be published by operators to improve services and passenger experiences through the availability of real-time journey planning information from online providers such as Google.</p><p>The Department encourages the development of third-party applications and services that utilise the published data. Developers can create mobile apps, websites and tools that utilise bus data to offer passengers real-time information, route planning and more. This supports local passenger journeys by providing passengers with the tools and information needed to plan trips effectively, reducing information gaps and enhancing passenger satisfaction.</p><p>The Department has amended the BODS data standards profile to accommodate demand responsive bus travel. We are also currently working with bus operators, their agents and technology providers to support product development and data submission, through webinars and other forms of engagement.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 22/11/2023 11:07:35 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1601612

registered interest
date	06/03/2023
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, on what date the Bus Centre of Excellence website will be published.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	159105
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 13/03/2023 answer text <p>An announcement regarding the Bus Centre of Excellence will be made soon.</p> answering member constituency North West Durham answering member printed Mr Richard Holden question first answered 13/03/2023 09:35:24 answering member 4813 label Biography information for Mr Richard Holden
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse

1489005

registered interest
date	13/07/2022
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 assessment he has made of (a) the total number of bus routes each year over the past ten years (b) the total number of bus routes per local authority over the past ten years.
tabling member constituency	Bath
tabling member printed	Wera Hobhouse
uin	36063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/07/2022 answer text <p>The Department does not hold the information that is being requested on the number of bus routes.</p><p> </p><p>Bus service registrations are notified to the Traffic Commissioners. The latest published data from the Traffic Commissioners, which provides the number of all live local bus services in England outside London, can be found in the Traffic Commissioners Annual Report at the link given below. Bus routes in London are registered separately with TfL:</p><p><a href="https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1080924/2021_Annual_Report_FINAL_220607.pdf" target="_blank">https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1080924/2021_Annual_Report_FINAL_220607.pdf</a></p> answering member constituency Lincoln answering member printed Karl McCartney question first answered 21/07/2022 14:44:46 answering member 4028 label Biography information for Karl McCartney
tabling member	4602 label Biography information for Wera Hobhouse