Bus Services: Concessions
The question
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment her Department has made of trends in current levels of concessionary bus travel usage.
Answered by Simon Lightwood
The Department publishes statistics on concessionary travel in England in the Concessionary Travel Statistics release, which are based on survey data collected from Travel Concession Authorities (TCAs). Concessionary travel relates to when eligible people travel on reduced (or free) fares.
The latest concessionary travel statistics, including figures on concessionary bus passenger journeys in England for the year ending March 2011 to the year ending March 2024 for older and disabled people are provided in the table below:
Table: Older and Disabled Concessionary Bus Journeys, millions | |||||
Year ending March | England | England outside London | London | English metropolitan areas | English non-metropolitan areas |
2011 | 1,048 | 753 | 296 | 302 | 450 |
2012 | 1,054 | 747 | 307 | 295 | 453 |
2013 | 1,009 | 711 | 298 | 281 | 430 |
2014 | 1,007 | 708 | 300 | 277 | 430 |
2015 | 989 | 693 | 296 | 268 | 425 |
2016 | 958 | 670 | 289 | 258 | 412 |
2017 | 925 | 644 | 281 | 247 | 397 |
2018 | 881 | 608 | 273 | 232 | 376 |
2019 | 861 | 592 | 269 | 226 | 366 |
2020 | 802 | 550 | 252 | 209 | 340 |
2021 | 270 | 179 | 92 | 76 | 103 |
2022 | 491 | 322 | 169 | 129 | 193 |
2023 | 570 | 372 | 198 | 141 | 231 |
2024 | 604 | 389 | 215 | 144 | 245 |
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