§ Mr. BreedTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, pursuant to the answer of 22 November 2001,Official Report, column 427-28W, if she will list the rural authorities and settlements that have a bus service (a) six days, (b) seven days and (c) six/seven days a week. [35226]
§ Alun MichaelThe most comprehensive information about parishes and settlements and the extent to which they have a bus service(a) six days, (b) seven days and (c) six/seven days a week is based on completed parish clerk questionnaire responses to the Countryside Agency's Rural Services Survey. This is information collected in the year 2000 and is available on the Countryside Agency's website at: www.countryside.gov.uk/ruralservices/index.htm
80WIt is not possible to provide a list in respect of rural authorities and settlements as requested because the information is not available in the format requested.
It should be noted that a combined list of parishes and settlements in 2000 would be over 14,000 rows long with information from 6,100 parish councils covering 12,200 settlements.
For 1997 information was collected only at parish level by the Rural Development Commission (one of the Countryside Agency's predecessor organisations). It is not readily available in a parish list format.