§ Mr. Home RobertsonTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will list the groups of two or more local authorities which are jointly operating travel concession schemes under section 93 of the Transport Act 1985.
§ Mr. FreemanThe information requested for England is as follows. Data are based on a survey carried out by the Department of Transport in March 1992.
- (a) London
- A joint scheme is operated by all the London boroughs.
- (b) Metropolitan areas
- No joint schemes as such. The six passenger transport authorities—Greater Manchester, Merseyside, South Yorkshire, Tyne and Wear, West Midlands and West Yorkshire—each operate schemes across the whole of their area.
- (c) Shire areas
The following county councils each operate a scheme jointly with all their district/borough councils
Cambridgeshire, Cheshire, Derbyshire, Devon, East Sussex, Essex, Hertfordshire, Humberside, Isle of Wight, Kent, Lancashire, Nottinghamshire, Shropshire and Suffolk.ln addition, Bedfordshire, Leicestershire andSurrey
county councils each operate country-wide schemes, but with little direct involvement of their district councils.The following councils operate joint schemes:
Bucks County Council and Milton Keynes Borough council.Aylesbury Vale, South Bucks and Wycombe District councils.224WDurham County Council jointly with Easington, Chesterle-Street, Derwentside, Durham city, and Sedgefield District councils.The seven district councils in Norfolk.South Oxfordshire, West Oxfordshire and the Vale of the White Horse district councils.Newcastle under Lyme borough council and Stoke on Trent city council.Six of the seven—not Crawley—district councils in West Sussex.In addition:
Avon county council operates a scheme for blind people in Bristol and Bath.Cleveland county council provides support towards some of its district council schemes.