Catherine Atkinson

Catherine Atkinson

Labour — Derby North

Speaking in the House of Commons on 5 December 2024

Debate

Improving Public Transport

Contribution

Bus cuts are absolutely devastating for the woman I spoke to who could not get her weekly shop, the young man I met who had to leave for work hours early to try to get multiple buses, and the husband who could not get a bus to the care home his wife was in. Since 2008, the east midlands has suffered bus cuts of 60%—more than any other region. Does the Minister agree that regional inequality is at the heart of this debate, and that it is far past time that we saw investment in our buses?

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