Public Transport

(asked on 5th June 2025) - View Source

Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what data her Department holds on the proportion of people reliant on public transport in (a) Ashfield constituency, (b) Nottinghamshire, (c) the East Midlands, (d) England and (e) the UK.


Answered by
Simon Lightwood Portrait
Simon Lightwood
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
This question was answered on 10th June 2025

The Department for Transport holds no direct data or estimates of reliance on public transport.

The National Travel Survey (NTS), overseen by the Department, collects data on the proportion of households who have no access to a car or van for England (22% in 2023) and East Midlands (21% in 2023). NTS data is not available at constituency, county or UK level.

The 2021 Census for England and Wales, overseen by the Office for National Statistics, also collected data on the proportion of households with no cars or vans, as shown in the table below.

Area

Proportion of households with no cars or vans

Ashfield

20.6%

Nottinghamshire

18.3%

East Midlands

19.1%

England

23.5%

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