Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to page 4 of the Sixth Special Report of the Transport Committee of Session 2022-23 on Implementation of the National Bus Strategy: Government response to the Committee’s Fourth Report, published on 6 June 2023, when he plans to publish guidance on social and economically necessary bus services.

We plan to publish new guidance on socially and economically necessary services (SENS) in this Parliament.