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date	13/05/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Concessions
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will make an assessment of the potential merits of lowering the eligibility age for a free bus pass to 60.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	26010
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 21/05/2024 answer text <p>The English National Concessionary Travel Scheme (ENCTS) provides free off-peak bus travel to those with eligible disabilities and those who have reached state pension age, currently aged sixty-six. ENCTS costs around £1 billion annually and any changes to the minimum statutory scheme, such as lowering the age of eligibility, would need to be carefully considered for their impact on the scheme’s financial sustainability.</p><p> </p><p>Local authorities in England have the power to go beyond their statutory obligations and extend free bus travel to those not eligible for ENCTS, however, these additional concessions are not funded by central government but by local authorities from local resources, such as council tax. Since 2010/11 almost all of the travel concession authorities in England have offered some form of discretionary concession.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 21/05/2024 09:43:55 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1713602

registered interest
date	24/04/2024
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Local Transport Fund
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what the eligibility criteria are for projects to receive funding under the Local Transport Fund; and whether his Department has issued guidance to local authorities on how they should consult hon. Members throughout the process.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	23602
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/04/2024 answer text <p>The Department will very shortly publish advice for local transport authorities on the scope, process and accountability framework for the Local Transport Fund. It is my intention that locally elected representatives, working with their local MPs, decide how to spend this money to invest in the transport priorities that matter most to their area.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 29/04/2024 13:28:48 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1668460

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	Bus Services: Midlands and the North of England
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to the policy paper entitled Network North, published on 4 October 2023, whether the £150 million funding for improving bus services in (a) northern England and (b) the midlands (i) is ringfenced and (ii) can be used by local authorities to fund bus routes which were commercially viable before the covid-19 pandemic but are no longer.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	954
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 17/11/2023 answer text <p>The new £1 billion Bus Service Improvement Plan (BSIP) funding for buses in the North and the Midlands, announced on 4 October, will continue and expand the improvements started by the £1.2 billion for BSIPs announced in 2022 and 2023. The first downpayment of £150 million has been indicatively allocated for 2024-25.</p><p> </p><p>The new funding can be used in the same way as existing BSIP funding. LTAs may use the funding to deliver the interventions that they and local operators, where they have an Enhanced Partnership, expect will deliver the best outcomes for passengers. Further details on the terms of funding will follow in due course.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hexham answering member printed Guy Opperman question first answered 17/11/2023 09:54:01 answering member 4142 label Biography information for Guy Opperman
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt

1668461

registered interest
date	08/11/2023
answering body	Department for Transport
answering dept id	27
answering dept short name	Transport
answering dept sort name	Transport
hansard heading	High Speed 2 Line: Minerals
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 change in the amount of granite that will be mined as a result of the cancellation of the northern leg of HS2.
tabling member constituency	Loughborough
tabling member printed	Jane Hunt
uin	955
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 16/11/2023 answer text <p>No granite would have been mined for the construction of the Phase 2 route from Birmingham to Manchester because granite does not occur naturally in the ground along the chosen route</p> answering member constituency Bexhill and Battle answering member printed Huw Merriman question first answered 16/11/2023 14:16:40 answering member 4442 label Biography information for Huw Merriman
tabling member	4839 label Biography information for Jane Hunt