§ Mr. Colin Shepherdasked the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will set out in the Official Report a table showing the total amount paid to bus operators in respect of revenue support for the financial year 1974–75 and 1984–85, together with the total bus route mileage and passengers carried for each of the years in respect of each of the regional and island councils in Scotland.
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§ Mr. AncramDetails of bus route mileage are not readily available on a regional of islands area basis. Regional and islands councils were not established until May 1975. A comparison of revenue support for buses by area is not therefore available for 1974–75. However, for Scotland as a whole such recenue expenditure in 1974–75 was £3.9 million and in 1983–84 (the latest year for which figures are available) £23.1 million.