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Bus Services: Concessions

Volume 505: debated on Wednesday 3 February 2010

To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport (1) how many national concessionary bus passes for those over the age of 60 years have been issued to residents of (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) North-East Lincolnshire local authority area and (c) North Lincolnshire local authority area in each year since they were introduced; (315240)

(2) how many national concessionary bus passes for people with disabilities have been issued to residents of (a) Cleethorpes constituency, (b) North-East Lincolnshire local authority area and (c) North Lincolnshire local authority area in each year since such passes were introduced.

The Department for Transport is not responsible for issuing passes and so does not maintain records of how many passes individual authorities have issued.

Cleethorpes is part of the North-East Lincolnshire county concessionary travel scheme. The last information held by the Department was that as of 12 January 2010, the North-East Lincolnshire county scheme had issued 4,1667 smartcard concessionary passes. As of the same date, the North Lincolnshire county scheme had issued 32,903 smartcard concessionary passes. In both cases, this includes passes issued to disabled people as well as those aged 60 and over. The Department only holds headline figures for number of passes issued.