Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of trends in usage of public bus school services.

The number of passenger journeys made on local bus services in London and England from 1970 to 2015/16 can be found in table BUS0103 at: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/bus01-local-bus-passenger-journeys#table-bus0103. However, estimates of the number of passenger journeys on local bus services that operate a school service are not produced.

The Department’s National Travel Survey collects information on travel to school. The number of trips to and from school by local bus per child per year in England can be found in table NTS0613 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistical-data-sets/nts06-age-gender-and-modal-breakdown#table-nts0613