§ Mr. Paul MarsdenTo ask the Secretary of State for Transport how many passengers used bus services in(a) Shrewsbury and Atcham and (b) Shropshire in each year since 1997. [138349]
§ Mr. McNultyThe number of bus passengers is not available for Shrewsbury and Atcham. Information included by Shropshire County Council in its latest Annual Progress Report for its Local Transport Plan showed that there were an estimated 6.3 million local bus passenger journeys in Shropshire in 2001–02, followed by 6.6 million in 2002–03. There is no reliable estimate of bus passenger journeys in Shropshire for earlier years.