| Heading: |
Bus Services: Franchises |
| Question ID: |
1810930 |
| UIN: |
58392 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-06-09 |
| Asking Member ID: |
5141 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Alex Mayer
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Alex Mayer
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Setting up a bus franchising scheme: December 2024, published in December 2024, whether a local transport authority is permitted to use surplus revenue gener |
| Is named day: |
false |
| Date of holding answer: |
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| Date answered: |
2025-06-16 |
| Date answer corrected: |
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| Is holding answer: |
false |
| Is correcting answer: |
false |
| Answering Member ID: |
4943 |
| Answering Member display name: |
Simon Lightwood
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| Answering Member handle: |
simonlightwood
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| Answering Member Twitter reference: |
@simonlightwood
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| Correcting Member ID: |
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| Answer text: |
A local transport authority can use revenue generated from a franchising scheme to support bus services that are not part of the scheme, including those outside the scheme’s area. |
| Original answer text: |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |