HC Deb 25 February 1976 vol 906 c234W
32. Mr. Luce

asked the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he is taking to improve rural transport services.

Dr. Gilbert

County councils have the prime responsibility for public transport in their areas. In my statement on 5th August 1975 I invited counties to resubmit their estimates for bus revenue support for 1976–77. I subsequently accepted virtually the whole of the non-metropolitan counties' bus revenue support estimates for transport supplementary grant purposes for 1976–77, totalling about £33 million, as against last year's total of about £9 million.