HC Deb 15 December 1977 vol 941 c338W
Mr. Banks

asked the Secretary of State for Education and Science if she will publish the number of children in receipt of school transport subsidy and the total amount of subsidies paid out for school transport as a per capita amount.

Miss Margaret Jackson

Expenditure by local education authorities in England and Wales on the provision of home-to-school transport for children attending ordinary and special schools was £90 million in 1976–77. Authorities are not required to make annual returns of the number of children for whom arrangements for home-to-school transport are made and theper capita amount is therefore not available.