Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness of quality partnership schemes between 2010 and 2016.

The post legislative assessment of the Local Transport Act 2008, published in November 2013, includes an assessment of how the Quality Partnership Scheme measures have been operating. It can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/259164/pla-lta2008.pdf

A further assessment of the effectiveness of existing legislative tools for improving local bus markets, including Quality Partnership Scheme provisions, was included as part of the Impact Assessment that accompanies the Bus Services Bill. The impact assessment was published in June 2016 and can be found at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/558392/the-bus-services-bill-impact-assessments.pdf