Question reference: S6W-13777
- Asked by: Beatrice Wishart, MSP for Shetland Islands, Scottish Liberal Democrats
- Date lodged: 12 January 2023
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 25 January 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, in relation to the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel scheme, how many (a) cards were issued and (b) new applications were received on (i) 1 September 2022 and (ii) 1 January 2023.
Answer
As of the end of day 29th August 2022 there were a total of 499,822 National Entitlement Cards issued for the Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme. This is the closest data available for 1 September 2022.
As of the end of day 2 January 2023 there were a total of 639,795 National Entitlement Cards issued for the Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme. This is the closest available data for 1 January 2022.
The figures above include cards issued as a result of first time applications, replacement cards and cards which may no longer be active.
This data is supplied by the National Entitlement Card Programme Office (NECPO). NECPO support the 32 local authorities by assisting with the integration of various national and local public services on the National Entitlement Card (NEC) and are the joint controller with local authorities of this data.
Transport Scotland does not hold application information as the Improvement Service are in charge of applications made through getyournec.scot and all other applications are managed by local authorities.