Question reference: S6W-20494
- Asked by: Annie Wells, MSP for Glasgow, Scottish Conservative and Unionist Party
- Date lodged: 9 August 2023
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Current status: Answered by Fiona Hyslop on 4 September 2023
Question
To ask the Scottish Government what percentage of young people in the Glasgow region have received a card through the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel scheme as of May 2023, broken down by local authority area.
Answer
By the end of May 2023, there were 67,615 cardholders under the Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme in Glasgow City. This represents 67% of the estimated eligible population in the local authority area.
Cardholder data is supplied by the National Entitlement Card Programme Office (NECPO) and is provided by local authority. As such, data is not available by constituency area or larger parliamentary regions.
NECPO supports 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. The figure includes travel products collected from the Transport Scot Pass Collect mobile app.