Asked by: Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Transport:
What recent assessment he has made of trends in the number of bus journeys in England.
Answered by Nusrat Ghani
Local bus journeys remain central to transport choices, accounting for around 59% of all public transport journeys. The number of local bus passenger journeys in England fell by 1.5% to 4.44 billion in the year ending March 2017.
Asked by: Karen Lee (Labour - Lincoln)
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether the east coast main line change in ownership will affect the new train services to Lincoln scheduled to begin in 2019.
Answered by Lord Johnson of Marylebone
The change of operator is not expected to have any impact on this issue. We expect to provide additional services between London and Lincoln from May 2019.