Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the findings of the Common Wealth think tank's report, All Aboard: Transforming Bus Services, on the effect of bus privatisation, deregulation and austerity on (a) fares, (b) reliability of services and (c) pay and conditions of bus workers.

We have noted the publication of the Common Wealth report. The Government’s National Bus Strategy supports the delivery of more socially and economically necessary services and during this Parliament we will invest £1.2 billion of new funding to deliver improvements in services, fares and infrastructure.