Oral Question·Department for Transport
“What assessment he has made of the potential merits of franchising more local bus services.”
Tabled: 19 October 2023Answered: 26 October 2023
Asked by
Liz Twist
Labour — Blaydon and Consett
Answering Minister
the Secretary of State for Transport
Answer from Hansard
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Work and Pensions (Torsten Bell)
To tackle pensioner poverty, we are both increasing the state pension and running the biggest ever pension credit take-up campaign. Raising the new state pension in line with the triple lock over this Parliament is set to increase it by over £2,000 a year, while 60,000 extra pension credit awards were made in the year to July compared with the previous 12 months.