Concessionary travel statistics: year ending, March 2016

From:: Department for Transport
Part of:: Bus statistics and Concessionary travel (BUS08)
Published:: 18 October 2016

Statistics on concessionary bus travel statistics in England on the number of passes, bus journeys, reimbursement and expenditure.

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Concessionary travel statistics: year ending, March 2016 report

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Concessionary travel statistics: year ending, March 2016 tables

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Details

Concessionary bus travel statistics in England on the:

number of concessionary passholders
number of concessionary bus journeys
net expenditure on concessionary bus schemes
reimbursement to bus operators for concessionary schemes

For the financial year ending 2016, the number of concessionary passholders was:

9.9 million, a 0.9% increase

The number of older passholders was:

9.0 million, a 0.7% increase

The number of disabled passholders was:

was 912,000, a 2.6% increase

When comparing concessionary bus passenger journeys to the previous financial year, there were:

0.97 billion passenger journeys

Travel Concession Authorities (TCAs) spent an estimated £1.15 billion on providing statutory and discretionary concessions.

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