Department for Transport written question – answered at on 3 July 2020.
Geraint Davies
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (Substitute Member)
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment he has made of the number and proportion of people using public transport as their primary mode of transport in (a) the UK and (b) comparable countries.
Rachel Maclean
Parliamentary Under-Secretary (Department for Transport)
The National Travel Survey (NTS) recorded that public transport was the primary mode of transport used for 9.6% of trips per person, per year in England in 2018.
Around 15% and 5% of people in England reported using the bus and train at least three times a week respectively in 2018 according to the NTS, equating to 8.2m and 2.7m people.
Data is not held for other countries, including other countries in the UK.
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