Question reference: S6W-10307
- Asked by: Mark Ruskell, MSP for Mid Scotland and Fife, Scottish Green Party
- Date lodged: 15 August 2022
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Current status: Answered by Jenny Gilruth on 20 September 2022
Question
To ask the Scottish Government, further to the answer to question S6W-09016 by Jenny Gilruth on 23 June 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 cardholders under the Young Persons’ Free Bus Travel Scheme as of the end of the day on 12 September 2022, broken down to local authority level.
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. The table includes travel products collected from the Transport Scot Pass Collect mobile application.
Local Authority | Cardholders |
Aberdeen City | 21,431 |
Aberdeenshire | 24,031 |
Angus Council | 7,120 |
Argyll & Bute | 5,589 |
City of Edinburgh | 58,777 |
Clackmannanshire | 2,780 |
Comhairie nan Eilean Siar | 1,382 |
Dumfries and Galloway | 8,739 |
Dundee City | 17,282 |
East Ayrshire | 14,084 |
East Dunbartonshire | 8,340 |
East Lothian | 11,226 |
East Renfrewshire | 8,723 |
Falkirk | 9,054 |
Fife | 41,233 |
Glasgow City | 52,152 |
Highland | 13,341 |
Inverclyde | 10,775 |
Midlothian | 8,507 |
Moray | 6,996 |
North Ayrshire | 15,812 |
North Lanarkshire | 27,591 |
Orkney Islands | 1,288 |
Perth & Kinross | 12,039 |
Renfrewshire | 17,193 |
Scottish Borders | 9,087 |
Shetland Islands | 2,487 |
South Ayrshire | 6,492 |
South Lanarkshire | 28,143 |
Stirling | 6,612 |
West Dunbartonshire | 9,638 |
West Lothian | 15,987 |
Total | 483,931 |