Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, if he will review the eligibility criteria for disabled bus passes to ensure that people with autism can obtain such a pass.

The Government committed in the National Bus Strategy to review eligibility for the disabled pass and this will consider whether invisible disabilities, such as autism, should be included within the eligibility criteria.

In addition to the statutory minimum concession guaranteed under the 2000 Act, the Transport Act 1985 (as amended) ('the 1985 Act') gives local authorities outside London the power, at their discretion, to offer additional travel concessions to people in any of the categories defined in section 93(7) of that Act.