§ 32. Mr. Luceasked the Secretary of State for the Environment what action he is taking to improve rural transport services.
§ Dr. GilbertCounty 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.