§ Mr. Dobsonasked the Secretary of State for Transport if he will estimate the current contribution by each London borough to the total money spent on concessionary fares and the estimated expenditure on concessionary fares in 1983–84 on the pensioners living in each borough.
§ Mrs. ChalkerLondon boroughs contribute nothing since they are simply the collecting agents for the GLC rate precept which includes the £58.6 million cost of this current scheme.
To calculate the expenditure on concessionary fares per pensioner living in each borough would require information about how many had travel passes and how much they were used. This information is not, so far as I am aware, available.