Question to the Department for Transport:
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, pursuant to the Answer of 14 February 2017 to Question 63176, what information his Department holds on the number of quality partnership schemes that were in place between 2010 and 2016.
The development and implementation of quality partnership schemes is primarily a matter for individual local authorities, working with their local bus operators, and so my Department does not hold information on the precise number of schemes. However, the post legislative assessment of the Local Transport Act 2008 and the Impact Assessment of the Bus Services Bill, as referred to in my previous answer of 14 February 2017, do contain some information on existing schemes.