| Heading: |
Bus Services: Fares |
| Question ID: |
1819131 |
| UIN: |
64803 |
| House: |
Commons |
| Date tabled: |
2025-07-03 |
| Asking Member ID: |
4743 |
| Asking Member display name: |
Lee Anderson
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| Asking Member Twitter reference: |
Lee Anderson
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| Member interest: |
false |
| Question text: |
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if she will make an assessment of the potential merits of reducing the bus fare cap to £2. |
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false |
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| Date answered: |
2025-07-11 |
| 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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| Answer text: |
The Government has made no assessment of reducing the bus fare cap to £2. The Government is committed to ensuring bus travel remains affordable, and stepped in to prevent a cliff-edge return to commercial fares by investing over £150 million to introduce ... |
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| Answering body ID: |
27 |
| Answering body name: |
Department for Transport |
| Tweeted: |
true |