HC Deb 30 June 1976 vol 914 c213W
Mrs. Wise

asked the Secretary of State for Social Services if he will list in the Official Report those areas in which recipients of invalidity pension are given any form of concessionary travel passes on buses.

Mr. Alfred Morris

Records are not kept centrally of the basis on which individual local authorities provide free or reduced-rate travel on buses. It is known that a number of authorities treat invalidity pensioners in the same way as retirement pensioners, subject to the point that invalidity pension, unlike retirement pension, is often in payment for quite short periods.