Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask Her Majesty's Government, in assembling the information required for their 2016 report Evaluation of Concessionary Bus Travel, whether any monetary value was attributed to the effect on concessionary pass holders in decisions to curtail or withdraw bus services in rural areas; and whether, in making those calculations, any financial benefit was ascribed to the Treasury from tax raised from such people using their own or someone else's car for journeys.

No. We did not include monetary benefits gained from bus services being withdrawn in our analysis. It would be for the local authority to undertake such analysis when making decisions on their local bus services as the Department for Transport does not make decisions on running local bus services.