Public Transport
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on the proportion of people reliant on public transport in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands, (d) England and (e) the UK.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The Department for Transport holds no direct data or estimates of reliance on public transport.
The National Travel Survey (NTS), overseen by the Department, collects data on the proportion of households who have no access to a car or van for England (22% in 2023) and East Midlands (21% in 2023). NTS data is not available at constituency, county or UK level.
The 2021 Census for England and Wales, overseen by the Office for National Statistics, also collected data on the proportion of households with no cars or vans, as shown in the table below.
Area | Proportion of households with no cars or vans |
Ashfield | 20.6% |
Nottinghamshire | 18.3% |
East Midlands | 19.1% |
England | 23.5% |
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