§ Mr. Andrew TurnerTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport, Local Government and the Regions, pursuant to his answer (ref. 33788), if he will list those authorities providing more generous pensioners' travel concessions than the statutory minimum. [34671]
§ Ms Keeble[holding answer 8 February 2002]: Based on my Department's recent survey, those local authorities with schemes that are better than the statutory minimum requirement (i.e. half-fares on local buses for elderly and disabled people, with no charge for the pass) are as follows:
London
- London boroughs
PTAs
- Greater Manchester
- Merseyside
- South Yorkshire
- Tyne and Wear
- West Midlands
- West Yorkshire
Counties
- Derbyshire
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Nottinghamshire
Unitary authorities
- Blackpool
- Bracknell Forest
- Leicester City
34W - Luton
- Nottingham
- Plymouth
- Reading
- Rutland
- Southampton
District councils
- Bedford
- Mid Bedfordshire
- South Buckinghamshire
- Chester
- Derwentside
- Durham City
- Easington
- Sedgefield
- Wear Valley
- Havant
- Rushmoor
- St. Albans
- West Lindsay
- Daventry
- East Northamptonshire
- Blyth Valley
- Oxford
- Vale of White Horse
- Cannock Chase
- Nuneaton and Bedworth
- Warwick
- Bromsgrove
- Crawley
- Redditch.