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In the first two years of funding, local authorities have received £7 million to enable them to sponsor new rural transport services; that has helped to provide additional rural bus services.
Questions and Answers
Date answered:
23 August 2005
In the past three years the percentage of the drugs bill that we recover has fallen from nearly 7 per cent to nearly 4.5 per cent.We also have to weigh up the relative costs of treating someone with a prescription and treating them in other ways.
For many years, we have been committed to ensuring that any new vehicles that we buy hit all the Disabled Persons Transport Advisory Committee standards for access.
It might be useful to hear from the members who will report to the Education, Culture and Sport Committee.Pages 6 and 7 of the synopsis highlight the main points raised by the organisations that gave evidence.