Bus Services: Peterborough
Transport
Written answers and statements, 5 November 2009
Stewart Jackson (- Shadow Minister, Communities and Local Government; Peterborough, Conservative)
To ask the Minister of State, Department for Transport what estimate he has made of the number and proportion of pensioners who are entitled to a concessionary bus pass in (a) Peterborough constituency and (b) Peterborough City Council area.
Sadiq Khan (Minister of State, Department for Transport; Tooting, Labour)
The Department for Transport does not maintain records of how many people in local authorities are eligible for concessionary bus passes as concessionary travel is administered locally by Travel Concession Authorities (TCAs).
All older people aged 60 and over are entitled to receive a concessionary bus pass. The Department does not hold figures specifically for Peterborough constituency but work that was conducted by the Department prior to the implementation of the national bus concession suggested that as of August 2007, there were 29,894 older people eligible for a concessionary bus pass in Peterborough city council.