§ Mr. Watkinsonasked the Secretary of State for Transport (1) which counties run community buses and Post Office buses;
167W(2) how many (a) community buses and (b) Post Office buses there are in England, Wales and Scotland.
§ Mr. HoramCounties may assist in the financing of community buses and Post Office buses, but it is the Post Office which runs the post buses, and the local communities themselves who actually run the community buses. The term "community bus" has a variety of interpretations, but I have taken it to mean volunteer-driven minibuses carrying the public at large at separate fares. Information on these is not necessarily complete, but information on post buses is.
The figures, by counties and Scottish regions are as follows:
Location Community buses Post buses England Berkshire — 5 Cornwall — 1 Cumbria — 2 Devon 1 1 East Sussex 1 2 Essex — 1 Hampshire — 1 Isle of Wight — 2 Kent — 3 Leicestershire — 2 Lincolnshire — 1 Norfolk 1 1 Northamptonshire 1 — Northumberland — 1 Surrey — 2 West Sussex — 1 Totals 4 26 Wales Clwyd 1 1 Dyfed — 1 Powys — 1 Totals 1 3 Scotland Borders — 12 Central — 7 Dumfries and Galloway — 12 Fife — 4 Grampian — 4 Highland — 31 Lothian — 3 Shetland — 1 Strathclyde — 19 Tayside — 6 Western Isles — 8 Totals — 107 Great Britain: Total 5 136