Question to the Department for Education:

To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what the timescale is for the introduction of student bus passes in the academic year 2018-19.

Local authorities in England have a statutory duty to provide free home to school transport for all eligible pupils. It is for local authorities to decide how to fulfil that duty. They may, if they wish, provide pupils with bus passes, but timescales are not mandated by the government.