§ Mr. Darlingasked the Secretary of State for Transport what information he has about the numbers of bus routes 479W operated by (a) private bus operations and (b) public sector and local authority owned operators running either in whole or in part after 7 pm and which are not subject to any payments from a local authority.
§ Mr. David MitchellThe number of registered services not receiving any subsidy from local authorities and operating after 8 pm is as follows:
Number PTCs owned by District and Regional Councils 476 PTCs owned by metropolitan PTAs 678 NBC and former NBC subsidiaries 1,301 SBG 370 Private sector 561 Information on evening services is available only for services operating after 8 pm rather than 7 pm.