§ Mr. StevensonTo ask the Secretary of State for the Environment, Transport and the Regions if he will list the concessionary travel schemes available to pensioners in each local authority in the West Midlands region; and the costs of each scheme. [58875]
§ Ms Glenda JacksonConcessionary travel schemes are a matter for local authorities, and my Department does not have details of schemes for pensioners. But the overall costs reported by local authorities of concessionary travel schemes (covering elderly, blind and disabled people and 331W children) for the 1996–97 financial year for each local authority in area covered by the Government Office for the West Midlands are as follows:
Concessionary fares for elderly, blind and disabled people and children (excluding school travel): Outturn 1996–97 Local Authority Net current expenditure(£000) Hereford & Worcester 0 Bromsgrove 197 Hereford 92 Leominster 14 Malvern Hills 6 Redditch 622 South Herefordshire 175 Worcester 327 Wychavon 457 Wyre Forest 224 Shropshire 57 Bridgnorth 125 North Shropshire 108 Oswestry 62 Shrewsbury & Atcham 187 South Shropshire 24 The Wrekin 401 Staffordshire 0 Cannock Chase 648 East Staffordshire 539 Lichfield 152 Newcastle-under-Lyme 262 South Staffordshire 446 Stafford 422 Staffordshire Moorlands 136 Stoke-on-Trent 681 Tamworth 183 Warwickshire 0 North Warwickshire 148 Nuneaton & Bedworth 652 Rugby 190 Stratford-on-Avon 149 Warwick 323 Birmingham 475 Coventry 21 Dudley 66 Sandwell 268 Solihull 30 Walsall 367 Wolverhampton 141 West Midlands Passenger Transport Authority 55,370 Government Office West Midlands 64,747