Question reference: S6W-07866
- Asked by: Neil Bibby, MSP for West Scotland, Scottish Labour
- Date lodged: 6 April 2022
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 3 May 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-06190 by Jenny Gilruth on 4 March 2022, whether it will provide updated figures on how many young people have now received a free bus pass through the Young Persons’ (Under 22s) Free Bus Travel scheme, broken down by local authority, based on the latest information available.
Answer
The following table shows the number of cards produced for the Young Persons Scheme (YPS) by close of business 25 April 2022, broken down to local authority level. This information was 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. Please note this data might include a small number of cards produced without the travel product.
Aberdeen City | 15,249 |
Aberdeenshire | 14,750 |
Angus Council | 3,878 |
Argyll and Bute | 3,046 |
City of Edinburgh | 42,142 |
Clackmannanshire | 1,683 |
Comhairle nan Eilean Siar | 677 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 4,763 |
Dundee City | 14,151 |
East Ayrshire | 9,574 |
East Dunbartonshire | 4,146 |
East Lothian | 7,761 |
East Renfrewshire | 5,013 |
Falkirk | 5,240 |
Fife | 23,938 |
Glasgow City | 25,066 |
Highland | 8,178 |
Inverclyde | 10,966 |
Midlothian | 5,321 |
Moray | 4,126 |
North Ayrshire | 4,091 |
North Lanarkshire | 13,060 |
Orkney Islands | 596 |
Perth and Kinross | 6,775 |
Renfrewshire | 10,270 |
Scottish Borders | 5,628 |
Shetland Islands | 1,509 |
South Ayrshire | 3,451 |
South Lanarkshire | 7,881 |
Stirling | 3,833 |
West Dunbartonshire | 8,166 |
West Lothian | 9,400 |