Bus Services: Fares
(asked on 3rd March 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what information his Department holds on trends in the prices of bus fares since 2010.
This question was answered on 11th March 2016
The Department for Transport publishes an index of local bus fares every quarter. The data are available in table BUS0415 at:
https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/387116/bus0415.xls.
Table BUS0415b shows that in England from September 2005 to September 2010 the average real terms fare rise was 2.1% per year, and from September 2010 to September 2015 the average real terms fare rise was 1.5% per year.