PARLIAMENTARY WRITTEN QUESTION
Bus Services: Subsidies (26 November 2018)
Question Asked
To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will provide sufficient funding to local authorities to enable bus subsidies to return to their 2010 levels in real terms.
Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)
Asked by:
Darren Jones (Labour)
Answer
Government support for bus services has averaged £2.2 billion a year since 2010/11, which is 23 per cent more than the average yearly spend between 1996/97 and 2009/10 in real terms.
Answered by:
Elizabeth Truss (Conservative)
29 November 2018
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