Trams: Concessions

(asked on 9th October 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what plans he has to include travel on trams in the pensioners' bus pass.


Answered by
Andrew Jones Portrait
Andrew Jones
This question was answered on 15th October 2015

The statutory minimum entitlement of the English National Concessionary Travel Scheme pertains to bus travel only and, given the current financial climate, there are no plans to extend the statutory scheme to include travel on any other mode of transport.

However, local authorities have the power to offer additional local concessions, which allows far more flexibility than would be the case with a blanket statutory enhancement.

Indeed, figures for 2015/16 show that 87 of the 89 Travel Concession Authorities (TCAs) outside London do offer some form of discretionary concession to their residents.

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