Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, whether his Department has made an assessment of the potential merits of extending the 16-25 railcard to bus travel.

Concessionary fares for young people are already available in the vast majority of authorities in England outside of London and such concessionary fares for young people are a matter for local authorities and bus operators to determine in their local areas. Therefore at this point the Department has no plans to introduce a statutory national bus travel concession for young people in England.