§ Mr. CousinsTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport if he will estimate the number of bus passengers carried and bus-miles worked in each metropolitan area outside London in 1985, 1990 and each subsequent year.
§ Mr. FreemanData collected by the Department cannot be released for individual metropolitan areas for reasons of reliability and confidentiality. Financial year estimates of the total number of local bus journeys made by passengers in the six English metropolitan areas outside London, and the corresponding figures for local bus-km worked, are given below. These have been extracted from tables 1.1 and 2.1 of "Bus and Coach Statistics Great Britain 1992–93", which also present data for Scotland as a whole. A copy of this HMSO publication has been placed in the House of Commons Library.
millions English metropolitan areas Year Local passenger journeys Local vehicle kms 1985–86 2,068 574 1990–91 1,547 650 1991–92 1,478 662 1992–93 1,386 678 Source: Statistical returns from PSV operators