Written Question·Department for Transport·UIN 58392
Bus Services: Franchises
Tabled: 9 June 2025
Answered: 16 June 2025
Question
Alex Mayer
Labour — Dunstable and Leighton Buzzard
To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, with reference to her Department's guidance entitled Setting up a bus franchising scheme: December 2024, published in December 2024, whether a local transport authority is permitted to use surplus revenue gener
Answer
Simon LightwoodA local transport authority can use revenue generated from a franchising scheme to support bus services that are not part of the scheme, including those outside the scheme’s area.