The destination printed on a bus ticket should not have any effect on the amount of reimbursement that the bus operator receives for carrying concessionary passengers.<\/p>
<\/p>
This is because reimbursement paid to operators is not based on the full commercial adult fare for a typical journey, but on the average equivalent full fare \u2013 taken from a \u201cbasket of fares\u201d \u2013 that each concessionary traveller would have paid in the absence of the scheme.<\/p>
<\/p>
Reimbursement payments are also subject to audits of ticket sales data and, if required, \u2018on-bus\u2019 surveys of patronage.<\/p>
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The destination printed on a bus ticket should not have any effect on the amount of reimbursement that the bus operator receives for carrying concessionary passengers.<\/p>
<\/p>
This is because reimbursement paid to operators is not based on the full commercial adult fare for a typical journey, but on the average equivalent full fare \u2013 taken from a \u201cbasket of fares\u201d \u2013 that each concessionary traveller would have paid in the absence of the scheme.<\/p>
<\/p>
Reimbursement payments are also subject to audits of ticket sales data and, if required, \u2018on-bus\u2019 surveys of patronage.<\/p>
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The \u2018Do More Online\u2019 campaign launched in November 2014 is promoted by means of content on the \u2018Business is GREAT\u2019 website. The Business Support Helpline logs referrals from the whole website, not individual pages, so does not capture the number of businesses contacting the Helpline specifically from the campaign.<\/p>
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The Do More Online campaign was part of the Small Business Digital Capability and a sub set of the Business is Great campaign. The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills published the following research and evaluation which includes an assessment of the Do More Online campaign.<\/p>
https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/digital-capabilities-in-small-and-medium-enterprises<\/a><\/p> https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/small-business-digital-capability-programme-challenge-fund-evaluation<\/a><\/p>"}
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], "answer" : {"_about" : "http://data.parliament.uk/resources/573424/answer", "answerText" : {"_value" : " The Student Loans Company (SLC) administers student loans for each of the UK Government Administrations. It collected £1.79 billion in the 2015-16 financial year in repayments on loans made in England. Statistics covering English loan borrowers are published annually by the SLC in the Statistical First Release (SFR) \u2018Student Loans in England\u2019: http://www.slc.co.uk/official-statistics/full-catalogue-of-official-statistics/student-loans-debt-and-repayment.aspx<\/a><\/p> <\/p> Information on the value of English loan over-repayments that have been refunded by the SLC in each financial year can be found in Table 1 of the SFR.<\/p> <\/p> Latest management information (as at April 2016) from the SLC shows that, in the tax year 2014-15, there were 66,100 English domiciled borrowers who had over-repaid their loans through PAYE tax collection.<\/p> <\/p> The SLC informs borrowers who are within two years of completing repaying their loans that they may opt to make loan repayments by direct debit, rather than through the tax system.<\/p> <\/p> Borrowers who take up the option to repay by direct debit will not over-repay their loans. If borrowers choose not to repay by direct debit, it is possible that they may over repay, as the SLC receives details of repayments made by borrowers from HMRC on an annual basis. We would encourage more borrowers to take up the direct debit option when they are near to the end of their loans.<\/p> <\/p> Where borrowers have over-repaid, the SLC will contact them to tell them that they have a refund due and make arrangements to pay the money back to them. Any borrower who has over repaid can also contact the SLC at any point to have the money refunded to them.<\/p>"}
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], "questionText" : "To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the total value of the repayments issued by the Student Loans Company to people who had overpaid their student loan was in each of the last five years.", "registeredInterest" : {"_value" : "false", "_datatype" : "boolean"}
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