CROSS-BORDER CONCESSIONARY TRAVEL SCHEME (No. 2)

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That this House welcomes the 2005 Budget commitment to provide funding from April 2006 to every local authority enabling free off-peak local area bus travel for the disabled and those aged over 60; notes that such concessionary travel is invaluable to the rural and isolated communities of Holderness; further notes that vital facilities such as acute hospitals are based in different local authorities; and calls upon the Government to bring about measures to allow for cross-border travel to adjacent authorities and across regions such as Yorkshire to ensure that the elderly and disabled communities of Holderness can derive maximum benefit from the new scheme.