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House of Commons · Ministers' Questions

Bus Services

Thursday 12 March 2020 · 2 questions

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Key points

  • Richard Holden asked about improving late evening and weekend bus services in rural towns.
  • Kieran Mullan inquired about ensuring bus companies provide reliable services to residents.
  • The Government announced a 220 million fund to improve bus services across rural and urban areas.

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Questions & Answers

Q1 Richard Holden Con Crook
Transport
Context

The MP is concerned about the lack of late evening and weekend bus services in his constituency, affecting towns like Crook, Willington, and Burnopfield.

Question

Towns such as Crook, Willington and Burnopfield in my constituency are starved of late evening and weekend bus services. What plans will the Government bring forward in the next few months to enable those areas to have better services?

Answer from Grant Shapps

Our £220 million better deal for bus users includes measures to improve bus services in rural and urban areas. This is together with the new £5 billion fund for overhauling bus and cycle links throughout the country.

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Q2 Kieran Mullan Con Wakefield
Transport
Context

The MP is concerned about the unreliability of bus services, with constituents reporting late or missing buses.

Question

My constituents tell me that very often buses come late or do not turn up at all. As we look to invest more in buses, what are we going to do to make sure that the companies delivering the services are doing a decent job for our residents?

Answer from Grant Shapps

My hon. Friend is right: it is really important to make these bus services work in a manner where people can just rely on them and where they do not even have to look at a timetable because the frequency is there. As part of doing that, we will be opening up bus open data powers, which will ensure that that information is transferred and available to people at bus stops and in their apps, enabling a much more frequent service to run.

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